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In this interview by SUNDAY ADEPOJU, a former general secretary of the pan-northern organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Mr Anthony Z. N. Sani, speaks on the wave of insecurity in the country and other issues.
WHAT do you think Nigerians should expect from the new service chiefs that could not be achieved by their predecessors in about six years?
Nigerians expected the out-gone Service Chiefs to make insecurity that have constituted sand bags on the path of socioeconomic activities to be a thing of the past. But they only reduced activities of the insurgence by consigning them to the fringes of North-East. The recent increase in the activities of kidnappers and bandits has yet to reduce substantially. We hope the new service chiefs will be provided with what it takes to make security challenges across the country history by using fresh ideas and strategies.
“The group of ’49 Wise Men’ brought together in 1978 by General [Olusegun] Obasanjo to write a new constitution under the chairmanship of Justice Udo Udoma did not have military personnel as members or any input by the military.
“The Draft Constitution which they produced was debated by an elected constituent assembly under the chairmanship of Chief Rotimi Williams.
“Again there were no military members who participated in the deliberations of the elected constituent assembly”, He said.
According to Mr Sani, it was the outcome of the debates that was promulgated into the 1979 Constitution under which those who were seen as the beacons of democracy in Nigeria contested for elected positions in 1979.
Tinubu, Run! Please, Run!, By Festus Adedayo
I think Tinubu should not to take a plunge into the potentially destructive brackish waters of Nigeria’s presidential contest. This is because, it will make either an MKO Abiola or Umaru Yar’Adua of him. Both paths are ruinous… So, Tinubu, please run, run from the SWAGA gang.
What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in
The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into the office they covet so badly. While at it, they are most times unmindful of how the people feel about their sprinting ahead of the Creator. Not even the perishability of their selves do they give
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What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into that office they covet so badly. While at it, they are most times unmindful of how the people feel about their sprinting ahead of the Creator. Not even the perishability of their own selves do they give consideration. Being humans, can any sprinter be sure they will see that selfsame 2023? This time around, however, they seem to be hushing the 2023 permutations and projections.
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