President Goodluck Jonathan has lambasted the Nigeria
Governors Forum (NGF) for politicising the outcome of the National
Conference and the committee set up on discrimination of Nigerians and
among Nigerians. He also warned Nigerians to beware of desperate
politicians who are out to encourage discrimination and divide the
country as a whole.
The President stated this on Saturday in Asaba, Delta State, at the
Arewa Initiative for Peaceful Co-existence in Southern Nigeria
Solidarity and Endorsement Rally in his honour. He said that such
politicians were bent on creating crises.
Jonathan called on youths and other stakeholders to do everything
possible to salvage the country, and work together for peaceful
co-existence in order for them to be able to live anywhere in Nigeria.
According to him, such politicians who claim they would bring change
are angry, bitter and are not in a better condition to bring the change
that can make Nigeria one indivisible country, except discrimination.
The President disclosed that one of the reasons he allowed the
National Conference and set up the Committee on Discrimination was his
believe in one indivisible Nigeria and the fact that only Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) government can implement the report of the
conference.
Earlier, founder of the group, Attahiuru Bafarawa, said Jonathan has
been prosecuting the war against terror and his initiative to forge an
alliance with neighbours as well as the deregulation of the power sector
that has been completed are yielding commendable results.
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State said the rally was a
celebration of unity in diversity. He also appealed to the people to
vote for Jonathan and that the people should get their permanent voter
cards, to enable them to vote for the PDP.
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