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Chief Mbazulike Amaechi is the only surviving member of the cabinet in the First Republic. Upon his election in the 1959 federal election as a member of the House of Representatives under the banner of the defunct National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), he was appointed Minister of Aviation and Transport in 1962, a position he held until the first military coup in 1966. The 91-year-old elder statesman speaks to the Group Politics Editor, KUNLE ODEREMI, on the state of the nation and what can be done to rescue the country from the precipice.
As an elder statesman, what would you advise President Muhammadu Buhari to do, given the critical state of the nation now? How would you assess the situation?