By uche Mbah
Former Secretary General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has joined the group of Nigerians who believe that Nigeria is heading towards disaster or, in the words of Obasanjo, heading for the precipice.
Speaking Tuesday in Abuja, Tuesday, during a book launch, Anyaoku said that things will continue in bad shape as long as the elite continue to live in denial.
Anyaoku said the situation is extremely worrisome.
“No objective observer, including those in the government, can deny that the current state of affairs in our country is extremely worrisome,”he said.
According to him, the myriads of problems bedeviling Nigeria will be handled if leaders will embrace “a structure of governance that draws not only from the lessons of successful diverse federations but more importantly, from Nigeria’s own past happier experience during its immediate post-independence years,” he said.
He advised that the RUGA policy should be handled with circumspection.
“For the sake of peace and integrity of the country, the RUGA policy must be handled with circumspection and strictly in accordance with our extant constitution’s provisions on land tenure. And we also see that all these unwholesome developments are accompanied by a worsening level of poverty that is leading to Nigeria fast becoming the poverty capital of the world.
“I call on our president, the members of the National Assembly, the governors, and indeed on all our political elites not to continue to live in denial of the seriousness of these glaring facts which, if not effectively addressed, are bound to push the country over the brink of a national disaster.”
Prominent Nigerians have been warning President Buhari on the dangers of not reading the handwriting on the wall. Recently, former President Obasanjo wrote a letter to the President, highlighting the problem and preferring solutions in the wake of the killings of Afenifere Chieftain, Pa Ruben Fasoranti. But president Buhari dismissed the dismal warning, calling Obasanjo unpatriotic.
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has lent his voice.
Leaders of the South and Middle belt have also joined the cry.
Only Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC National leader and a South west chieftan, is playing the Ostrich because of his alleged presidential ambition.
