The O’odua Peoples Congress (OPC) on Tuesday in Lagos called on President Goodluck Jonathan not to resign because of threats from terrorists.
Dr Frederick Fasehun, the founder of the OPC, advised at a news conference that Jonathan should disregard those people, demanding his resignation.
“It will be a bad precedence for a President to leave his office because of terrorists demanding his removal.
” We cannot override the national assembly to remove him, if the people think he deserves to be removed,” he said.
Fasehun said that only a fool would play the ethno-religious card in contemporary Nigerian politics.
“Religion has no place in Nigerian Politics or government,” he said.
He regretted the nonchalant attitude of some Nigerians to the security problems in the northern part of the country.
“Everybody seems to want to stop Nigeria to jump out of this troubled boat. Everybody is thinking of his primordial interest above national interest.
“Nobody seems genuinely committed to the unity of Nigeria, which is very worrisome,” Fasehun said.
According to him, the lack of respect for the country percolates the entire system, and there is no more respect for our institutions.
The OPC founder urged Nigerians to immediately review their contributions to the nation’s disharmonious situation, to pull it back from the brink.
“No country has ever survived two civil wars. We have experienced one.
Another civil war will be Nigeria’s Armageddon,” he said.
Fasehun said the only panacea available for the restructuring, reforming, redesigning and transforming the nation was a sovereign national conference.
“We have been calling for a sovereign national conference to solve our national question. If we don’t sit down together to negotiate our future, Nigeria will implode and pass into history.
“If we continue to patch this pseudo-federalism together, by the glue of the faulty 1999 constitution, the ethnic nationalities will continue to wallow in suspicion, hunger, anger, poverty, ignorance and superstition,” the OPC founder said. (NAN)