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    City Blog Governor Kwankwaso Warns Jonathan Over Fake Constitution

    Governor Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State
    has warned President Goodluck Jonathan on the
    dangerous consequences of the new constitution
    he is purportedly trying to smuggle in for
    Nigeria, through the recently concluded 2014
    National Conference.

    "Of course all people that love this country
    and really understand the situation we are
    today and the likely consequences of
    another brand new Constitution which the
    Presidency wants to use to start eight years
    beginning from 2015 certainly is a very
    dangerous development.

    "And those that should care (presidency),
    those that should understand, are very
    busy on the air working and helping
    themselves to remain (in power) forever

    He said he has always reminded people that
    when the issue of insecurity started in the
    Northeast, many did not know that one day
    it would come to his part of the country.

    "Now we share it, is also in the North
    central and now it is crossing border to the
    south. I am sure you must be aware that in
    some parts of this country now, they have
    flags other than green white green and this
    is terribly, terribly unfortunate."

    The governor gave the clear warning during an
    interview with journalists in his office in Kano on
    Wednesday, his Director of Press and Public
    Relations, Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, said in a
    statement.

    Governor Kwankwaso said the planned
    introduction of the so-called "New Constitution"
    may have adverse repercussions on the unity of
    the nation, pointing out that some parts of the
    country already have flags different from the
    constitutional green-white-green flag.

    Kwankwaso recalled that when he told journalists
    before the commencement of the National
    Conference that President Jonathan may
    introduce a new constitution, many people
    thought it was a joke but said that it has now
    become a reality.


    He told his interviewers he had received many
    calls from Abuja and from delegates to the
    National Conference that the '2014 New
    Constitution' had been drafted and confirmed.

    He said the federal government was bent on
    embarking upon what he described as "a
    kangaroo referendum" to favour the so-called
    draft constitution and inflate figures to support
    it, so as to force it on Nigerians.

    "I appreciate the elasticity of our people and I
    believe that elasticity has a limit if they keep up
    pulling and pulling it would come to a time when
    they will not endure any more. That is why I
    think the good people of this country should
    speak because some of the consequences people
    are now seeing will affect everybody", he
    warned.


    "What is happening today in Nigeria, if 10
    percent of it can happen anywhere in the world I
    don't think that leadership can't stand and is
    very dangerous to all of us," Kwankwaso
    asserted.
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