The party’s rules are skewed against them in case they don’t know. They should unite against forces detrimental to Yoruba interest.
I had warned them (the APC) before the last general elections about what is happening now.
There is nothing happening now that I have not said before –that he (Buhari) is a dictator; that he doesn’t obey the rule of law; he’s a tribal jingoist and so on.
What has Buhari said or done about the rampaging Fulani herdsmen who are maiming and killing people in the East, in the West and in the North? What has he said?
Buhari has denied that those marauders are Fulani.
He claimed that they are foreigners – the notion that the herdsmen are foreigners is even worse to accept.
If our head of state (and the commander-in-chief) cannot protect us or guarantee the safety of citizens against attacks by foreigners who are invading a territory he presides over, then we are in a mess.
Are you disappointed about President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance so far?
I am disappointed that Buhari has not disappointed me. The reason is that I spoke against him before the 2015 presidential election.
I am not happy that his actions now have vindicated me that I am right concerning what I said about him.
Back then, all his supporters said I was castigating him unnecessarily – that the actions he took during his first time of ruling the country were taken under military rule.
I was expecting him to change. Now, we’re in a civilian regime, they said, and I told them they don’t know Buhari’s background.
How can someone say Nigeria is not negotiable?
How can you not negotiate the continued existence of a country with multiethnic nationalities?
The Soviet Union existed for how many years? Did it not break eventually?
What about Czechoslovakia? Did it not break up?
So, why can’t Nigerians peacefully review the nation’s amalgamation? We need to review it –we cannot be held as if in a cage by force or by somebody or a group of people’s fiat.
Anyone or any group that is opposed to the restructuring of the country is the enemy of the country.
What kind of restructuring are you looking at?
We want the country to be restructured under a truly federal constitution and for ethnic nationalities to live together in peace.
Anything to the contrary will not augur well for the country. It is either a restructuring or there is no Nigeria – that is the truth.
No government can keep the people together by force.
We are calling for a restructuring of the country because we want the country to live together in peace.
It will be impossible for any government to keep us together by force. All the lopsidedness of this country is in favour of people of Buhari’s origin.
He holds the country cheaply by saying that foreigners are the ones invading the country.
Foreigners invading a country under your watch and you fold your arms and do nothing? It is his duty to protect us against any attack, whether foreign or local.
I have nothing against Buhari personally. He is the President of the country and I want him to succeed. But he must not be a partisan president.
Can you speak more on the mistakes you said Tinubu made?
Of course, he did (make a mistake supporting Buhari to become the president). I had said that ab initio – before the presidential poll was held.
I said the greatest mistake Nigerians – Yoruba must not make was voting for Buhari. Everybody heard me when I said that.
Many people said I was a Peoples Democratic Party’s apologist. I made that statement back then based on what I know about Buhari and his antecedents.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan didn’t realise the importance of implementing the confab report on time.
He promised that if given a second term as president he would examine the recommendations and try to implement them.
The other man (Buhari) said he wasn’t going to look at the report at all. I think it is reasonable to consider the person who promised to do something.
There’s nothing to accuse Buhari of now because he didn’t promise to implement the confab recommendations.
I am – I repeat – disappointed that Buhari has not disappointed me.
I was prepared for disappointment; I was waiting to be disappointed so that I could go to Buhari and tender an apology to him.
In spite of saying in his acceptance speech that he’s a born-again democrat, nothing has changed about him.
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