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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