A former Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. Alexander Ogomudia (rtd.) has
expressed about recent negative developments in the country, saying they
were indications that the country was overdue for restructuring and in
urgent need of a new way of governance.
Ogomudia said he feared for the future of the country and the present
security situation in the country, saying “a country where a former
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, was killed in the
streets like an urchin, and nothing happened, is a sign that the nation
is not moving in the right direction”.
The former Chief of Defence Staff who delivered the keynote address
at the Good Governance Lecture organised by the Catholic Church of
Warri’s Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) warned that the
continued suppression of the agitations for the restructuring of the
country could lead to a violent break up of the country.
He urged those opposed to restructuring to borrow a leaf from the
break up of Yugoslavia and Sudan saying that even in Spain the
Catalonians want to break away and that in Britain, Scotland seeks
autonomy.
He said restructuring was a global trend which every right-thinking
government should embrace for national integration and development
especially in a country like Nigeria, where he said we practice “a fake
federal system”.
But a spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari described Ogomudia’s
statement as vituperations of someone who is “yet to accept democracy as
a form of government.”
“It is very important to stress that we as a nation, are a
constitutional democracy and changes to the country in structure, its
systems, policy and politics must abide by the norms of democracy
otherwise they would be extrajudicial and therefore unconstitutional,”
Garba Shehu said.
Ogomudia equally criticised the death penalty for the hate speech
bill. He created a mild drama in the hall when paused to ask anyone who
can define hate speech to come forward.
When no one came out, Ogomudia said “something that no one can truly
define, they want to impose death penalty for? Where is this country
headed?”
He described the type of politics practised in Nigeria today as toxic
and detrimental to national development, saying “we have a fractured
politics and everyone is doing things that will hurt the country.”
He said Nigeria needed true federalism to advance like other nations
saying that Nigeria is the only country where states share money coming
from only one source monthly.
He argued that Nigeria was overdue for change saying that
restructuring the country would guarantee, ethnic harmony,
accountability, freedom of speech, Independence of the judiciary and a
fair electoral process.
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