Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu
26 October 2009
Famous engineer and politician, Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu has warned of the threat of anarchy in the country noting that ingredients that make civil strife possible have become more real than ever.
He said progressive and ideological politics have been sacrificed on the altar of ethnicism and sectionalism warning that greed and corruption are driving Nigeria to the precipice.
He warned that the continued emphasis on sectional politics would further destroy the country adding that Nigerians ought to develop their politics along ideological lines.
Addressing journalists in Abuja weekend, Izuogu said the country was regressing faster than imagined.
"I am worried. I am not happy with the way things are going now in the country.
"The people are being driven to the wall and what they need is only a kick.
"It pains me that progressives are not at work. All you get in the parties is imposition and disenfranchisement. When you disenfranchise people, you rape the nation," he stated.
Izuogu also warned that progressives must not shy away from the responsibility of speaking for the people.
He said: "The progressives think of the people. But what we have is sectional and ethnic politics that only destroys the country.
"Taking ethnic position over every issue will rob our country of progress and unity. One thing killing us as a country is taking positions on the basis of ethnicity, religion and zone.
"When you talk of constitution review, senators go along ethnic and religious lines and when you do that, the country will not have unity and when there is no unity there will not be progress," he stated.
He said Nigerian politics ought to toe ideological lines and not the ethnic and sectional dimensions it has taken.
"Issues should go along ideological lines. Let progressive and conservative ideologies be promoted so that the people will know where to belong and which ideologies to follow," he said.
He however regretted that Nigerians have among them, a lot of hypocrites who preach unity but are far from practicing it.
"Most people who talk of Nigeria's unity are hypocrites. They are sectional in their actions. They preach unity but their actins say otherwise," he noted.
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