7 November 2008
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God will bring him again to move, Nigerians will ask him again to ruleand we are waiting.
What political solution do you think will settle the issue of Niger Delta?
The point is that the problem of Nigeria and of Niger Delta is leadership. like I have said before, when a very powerful leader like IBB steps into governance the problem of Nigeria Delta will stop. He had said that the federal government can make huge amount of money more than what they are making right now, without controlling the resources of Niger Delta 100per cent. For me, it is not ideal coming out with a ministry of Niger Delt because, Niger Delta is part of Nigeria, what we need is beefing up the NDDC.
Are you making Niger Delta ministry when we have ministry of works yet we don't have good roads, we have Ministry of Education, yet education is comatose, we have ministry of health, yet quality health delivery is a far cry. We should be talking about scraping some ministries that are not working instead of establishing new ones.
For the native Americans, the American Indians, there was no ministry to cater for them. The aborigines of Australia never had any ministry to carter for them. Recently, the prime minister of Australia apologised to the aborigines and promised to fully re-integrate them into the society.
What we need in Niger Delta is focused leadership to build up that place and not a marshal plan idea. Mind you, a marshal plan is of destruction and rebuilding. Marshal plans is an idea because the place has be devasted and as a result to build it requires intensive development.
So why are you setting up a ministry for Niger Delta? Remember that the groove of Niger Delta covers the entire southern region. Ondo in South West, the entire South South, South East of Imo, Anambra and Abia states and you want to bring in a minister to cater for Niger Delta?.
The minister will be obsessed with power, he will over run and may undermine the governors of the states in the region. Definitely the executive president will be sharing the country between the North and the South then the minister of Niger Delta will be President General of the Southern Nigeria. So, you might as well take Nigeria to regional situation.
Remember that the budget of some ministries are more than that of some states and you want to make one man, a minister with huge amount of money to take charge of the entire Southern Nigeria?
When Chief Onyema Ugochukwu was the chairman of NDDC, it was reported that his convoy almost stretched to one kilometer, then the convoy of minister for Niger Delta will stretch to more than two kilometers. Do we need that?
You know our people, we are obsessed with power, the minister will over run the state governors and there will be conflict of interest; and remember both the NDDC and the minister of Niger Delta still report to the president.
Bakassi?
Originally, I could not comprehend why a country without firing a single shot will give out its land. But I discovered that one way or the other, our leaders may have benefited in the past. This is not something we can see right now, the issue is that it is gone and it is gone.
Trial of some past leaders by EFCC?
EFCC was designed to hunt for certain people, and the final product of EFCC was Yar'Adua and Jonathan. That is the game and since the two leaders have emerged, EFCC has no spine anymore.
Could you tell us briefly about your self and political philosophy?
I have been around and contested three elections in my political career. I contested for the chairman of Isiala Mbano Local Government Area under the platform of All peoples party (APP), I also contested for senate, Okigwe zone and I was the gubernatorial candidate for Imo state PDP. In fact, I was the first candidate that was heard by the party to run far PDP primary in the last election.
Right now I make contributions in newspapers through writings on national issues. I propagate for leadership through constant reading, persistent writings thinking, regularly participating in political activities. Also political intervention with political leadership and aligning ideological political groups and movements like the IBB political group, movement and thought, and being close to God.
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