Governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in Enugu State,Osita Okechukwu has said that the current spate of post-election violence in some northern States, were fruits of former president, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘mischievously sowed evil seeds’.
Governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in Enugu State,Osita Okechukwu has said that the current spate of post-election violence in some northern States, were fruits of former president, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘mischievously sowed evil seeds’.
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He also linked the crises which have claimed lives and properties to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, explaining that the core element of the anger in the North could be traced to the zoning convention.
He said, “For the present crisis, it is important that before President Goodluck Jonathan sets up the Judicial Commission of Inquiry to unearth the immediate and remote causes of the political inferno and post electoral violence; one deems it necessary to appeal to our dear compatriots to embark on introspection and recall how the fault lines, the contradictions and the anti-thesis which are the metaphor of the bloodletting today, were sowed mischievously as evil seeds by ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and indeed the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} in 2007.
“In genuinely unraveling what simulated the anger in the North, zoning convention is the core element; however we must remember the web-design weaved by ex-president Obasanjo when Nigerian patriots vehemently rejected his 3rd Term gambit.
Chief Obasanjo never forgave Nigerians, especially the North for denying him the opportunity to elongate his tenure via constitutional amendment. There and then, he triggered off a chain of activities and encouraged a lot of Nigerians, mostly governors especially Northerners in the spirit of the zoning convention of his party – PDP, to succeed him.”
He noted that political violence remained prevalent in the country due to the people’s resistance to electoral fraud in Nigeria.
“Political violence at different degrees has been the bane of electoral fraud in Nigeria - 1964 Operation Wetie, 1983 violence in the South West, 1993 June 12 Crisis, 2007 violence in the North and the present inferno; all had their root in peoples resistance to rigging.
“Neither the CPC nor Buhari by any stretch of imagination can be linked to the anti-thesis or the remote cause of the political inferno in the North.
“Lets us be sincere and cast our mind back on how we came to this sordid scenario, especially on the germane issue of why the North is angry politically.
“In the contest for Obasanjo’s anointment were ex-governors Peter Odili, Adamu Mu’azu, Abdullahi Adamu, Ahmed Maikarfi, Donald Duke, and Professor Jerry Gana et al. The Chief deceptively kept their hopes alive until the last minute, when he anointed the terminally-ill late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
“In anointing Umaru Yar’ Adua of blessed memory, Obasanjo was fully aware that he was terminally ill and was not in the best frame to govern the country and was not healthy to fill up the Northern slot in line with the zoning convention of his party.
“Questions! Questions! Questions! Why chose a man who never canvassed to be president? Was the North fairly treated with Umaru Yar’Adua selection among healthy and loyal members of Chief Obasanjo’s party?
“This is the anger of the North, neither of CPC as a political party nor Buhari as a person; for which Chief Obasanjo should be held culpable.” He added.
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