APC Will Plunge Nigeria Into Civil, Religious War –fayose

APC will plunge Nigeria into civil, religious
war –Fayose
JANUARY 10, 2015 BY GBENRO ADEOYE

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has
described the All Progressives Congress as
capable of causing chaos in Nigeria with the
statements being made by its leadership.

Fayose, in a statement made available to
Saturday PUNCH on Friday, blamed the APC for
what he called a “campaign of hate.”

He described the APC presidential candidate, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as an “Islamist who is
out to return power to the northerners and
implement Islamic agenda.”

He said this could trigger crisis in the Niger-Delta
area of the country in the South-South, where
President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples
Democratic Party hails from. Buhari, on the other
hand, is from the North-Western part of the
country.

Jonathan, Buhari and 11 other candidates will vie
for the presidential seat at the polls in February,
2014.

He said, “The APC as a party is saying that it will
form parallel government if Buhari loses, implying
that the party has admitted defeat and is ready
to throw the country into chaos.

“The APC people are already telling Nigerians
what will happen after the election if President
Jonathan wins.

“This campaign of hate from the APC has now
triggered a kind of reasoning in the mindset of
other stakeholders, especially the Niger-Delta
people, who see the Goodluck Jonathan
presidency as their turn, with the reality that, if
Buhari wins, there will be crisis in the Niger-Delta,
the area that produces the resources with which
Nigeria is sustained.

“If the Niger-Delta region erupts in crisis and the
Igbos in the South-East return to the old antics
and decide to secede, what happens to the
North that can only contribute between three to
five per cent to the economy of Nigeria?

“Is it not a fact that Boko Haram is a Northern
insurgency that is linked to the Northern
elements, but now being used to blackmail
President Goodluck Jonathan? Will it surprise
anyone if the Niger-Delta people of the South-
South and the Igbos in the South-East call the
bluff of the North and secede?”

He said, “The reality is, if care is not taken, the
end of the election might be secession or
religious war, aside from the global economic
crisis, which is a cold war on its own.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, in a telephone conversation with
one of our correspondents, said people should
stop comparing Buhari when he was a military
ruler to the Buhari that is vying to become
democratically elected the Nigerian President.

“You cannot compare who Buhari was when he
was a military ruler to a civilian who he is today,”
he said.

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