The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo (Jnr) has said that Nigeria under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led
Federal Government is sliding into a status of rejection and
lawlessness.
He accused President Muhammadu Buhari of enthroning ethnicism into
the nation’s polity, pointing out that the failure of leadership has
made the country to become restive.
Chief Nwodo made the disclosure in an interview with Sun newspaper, saying that, “Our current
leadership has become so ethnicized that it has reminded people of
their homes.
“If you are a Fulani and you do wrong you will escape the law. If you
are a Fulani and you don’t qualify for a job, you get it. If you are a
Fulani you become a herdsman and kill people, you are not arrested.
“You hang an automatic rifle on your neck and you are photographed
and show in all the social media, nobody arrests you. You break into a
church in Benue State, kill the priests and choirs and turn around, wear
the uniform of the choir, danced and it was trending all over the place
in the social media, nobody will arrest you. If you go to Nimbo and
kill farmers there and you show them in your telephones, nobody
prosecutes you.
“There is one law for some people and another law for the others. If
you are a Fulani, you can become Chief Justice of Nigeria, whether you
went to our normal law school or you went to Sharia school.
“If you are a Fulani and you are a Chief of Army Staff you can be
there forever. When your tenure finishes it can be elongated, something
that has never happened in the history of our country and does not have
any justification in any establishment law that we know.
“Our present government has remained much on where you come from in
terms of our ethnic configuration and as long as this situation
persists, Nigeria will continue to remain a tribalistic nation.”
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