Anyday Niger Delta Join Their Voice For Freedom Of Biafra, Nigeria Will Be Gone – El-Rufai
– Says Niger Delta is the glue holding Nigeria together.
Dez Mayorz News.
Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El_Rufia has raised the alarm that Nigeria was at the moment facing existential threat and that the Niger Delta like the role it played has been the glue holding the country together.
El- Rufai who spoke during a condolence visit to the residence of the late Chief Edwin Clark in Abuja, noted that the nation’s democracy was also in great danger and all people of goodwill must come together to ensure that the it does not implode.
He said that Clark’s leadership role in rallying the people of the Niger Delta together had contributed to the sustainability, growth and development of the country. According to him, if the Midwest region had joined Biafra during the civil war, Nigeria would have gone. According to him, the Mid West could not have played that role but for patriotic individuals like the late General Samuel Ogbemudia, Major David Ejoor, Chief Edwin Clark and others.
He said, “Our nation, our democracy is in great danger, it is facing existential threat and Niger Delta has been the glue that has been holding the country together. All people of goodwill must come together to ensure that we have good leadership,”
El- Rufai who urged the people of the Niger Delta to continue with the good work of Pa Clark, affirming that he really played a fatherly role through out his lifetime, said, ” think everyone, no one, can dispute that we, as a country, our democracy, our nation are in great danger. And all people of good will need to come together to ensure that we have a leadership that will make this country better for everyone, not just for the people. I think the legacy of E.K. Clark and the work that he has done should remind us all of the importance of being courageous, standing up for justice and risking everything for nigeria.
“I’ve been working on a project to write about the legacies of our six living former Presidents of Nigeria. Nigeria is very lucky. We are the only country in the world with six former presidents, still alive, still active.
And I thought we are not making the best use of their experiences as well as their mistakes.
“So, from January last year, I started research and I reached all the former Presidents and we are working on publishing this book, by the grace of God, by the middle of next year. Because it requires doing several years of research, but then also interviewing the former Presidents and asking them some difficult questions. One of the questions I was going to ask President Babangida was June 12th, he has answered it yesterday but there are more I want to ask him when the time comes.
“Iam happy to say that all the former Presidents have agreed on the project they think is important because we tend to forget what good things our leaders have done, but only remember one or two of their mistakes.
And taking Babangida as an example, people don’t realize that the three largest banks in Nigeria today did not exist before Babangida. It was Babangida that licenced Guarantee Trust Bank, licenced Access, and Zenith Bank. These are the three largest banks in Nigeria. They didn’t exist before Babangida came, but nobody gives them credit…..
