Buhari is pushing Ndigbo hard to leave Nigeria – Ezeife

Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra State,  says for the unity of Nigeria not to be negotiable, there must be restructuring of the country.

 He also accuses President Muhammadu Buhari of pushing Ndigbo out of the country and also corrupting the constitution of Nigeria.

 The former governor spoke in an interview with Vanguard.

Dr. Ezeife said, “All these I have been saying ‘no de make wave in your ears at all? First, he swore the oath to protect and defend the constitution, he is not defending the constitution, he is not offering any job to people from the Southeast. That is called denial, he is corrupting the constitution through the appointments he is making and the best policy .Buhari is known for is anti-corruption policy. He is corrupting the policy he rolled out in many ways. One of these is unfairness in the distribution of jobs. As I am talking to you now, people sit in national Security Council of Nigeria, the Igbo are described as one of the third legs of the tripod in Nigeria, not one Igbo is in the national Security Council. You don’t kill people and expect them to be with you. The Nigerian Army massacred our people in Aba, they also massacred our people who carried the Bible to go and do memorial service in Onitsha area. Fulani herdsmen went and killed our people in Enugu. Olisa Metuh was going to court handcuffed when people who have greater charges against them, were swaggering into the court. What are you telling his people? So, please, I am no longer interested in blaming Buhari, all I am interested now is asking Nigerians from all parts of the country to pray for Buhari because he is the President. May God give him the idea to change, may God direct him to the right path of Nigeria’s developmental governance. That is my prayer and I will appeal to everybody to forget criticising Buhari. We have seen that he doesn’t absorb criticism, so why do we keep calling him names if he doesn’t recognise what you are saying”.

Dr. Ezeife also called for the review of the quota system of gaining admission into public schools, saying it was not only killing the educational system, but also a marginalization of the so-called educationally advantaged states.

“Do you know that in this Nigeria, there is a state where a child must score 139 points in order to qualify to enter a secondary school, while from another state, you will have nine points?

“For an Anambra child to go to federal college, he or she must score 139, that is the highest. “But when you go round, some states are nine points, some two. “This is very diverse and it is not even helping anybody. “So, if you have geopolitical zones as federating units there will be increased competition.“ Within the zone, there will be fair standards. “There will be increased pressure to score well or you will not qualify. “But once it is Nigeria, you will hear, how can you allow Igbo or the Anambra indigenes to fill the school and Sokoto will not come even if they don’t score anything? What kind of Nigeria are we running?”