A former presidential candidate of the National Action Council, NAC, Dr. Olapade Agoro, has raised an alarm that Nigeria is moving towards self-destruction, citing five major issues that must be urgently addressed by all those who believe in the future of the country.
He listed the issues that should be of concern to all Nigerians to include the clamour for power to remain in the North, reckless earnings by members of the National Assembly, Boko Haram, beheading of 11 Christians and the plan by the National Assembly to spend N37 billion on renovating complex.
Agoro in a statement titled, “Nigeria: Treading the dangerous road to self-annihilation – A warning”, expressed concern that Nigerians were not putting their leaders to task on how they were governing them, stating that what the country needed at present were real change and not deceit.
While lamenting that some part of the country refused to learn from history that Nigeria was one nation with diverse tribes and languages, he said making statement that power should remain in the North beyond 2023 was not only reckless but capable of inciting costly violence. He maintained that those holding such positions were walking on their heads rather than their legs.
He castigated members of the National Assembly over the plan to renovate the National Assembly Complex with N37b, describing it as not only unpatriotic but unreasonable and “attempt to rob the nation of a large fortune at a time of Nigeria’s economic instability.”
On the beheading of 11 Christians on Christmas day, he said it was a direct assault on Christians and humanity not only in Nigeria but all over the world.
He stated that the time had come for Nigeria to take drastic actions against insurgency.
