Dialogues: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: [OmoOdua] ‘Supporters of SNC asking for civil war’

"The National Coordinator of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has criticised the call for a sovereign national conference, saying the proponents of the conference are asking for another civil war."-Junaid

Guys:

It is unfortunate that this man is a coordinator of Northern intellectual groups. He should tell us what Nigerians need to do to prevent the catastrophic naked dance that we are observing now. We danced close to cliff edge in 1967;1992;1998;2010;2013 and this man is still recommending the doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result. Guys this is pure insanity. But I am sure most Nigerians will not join this man and his ill-advised group in this Russian Roulette.

SNC is a means and not an end, and for anyone to be attacking a suggested tool without professing another tool, instead of using demagoguery and war mongering is beyond pale to say the least.

Pronto!!!

Idowu
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Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] 'Supporters of SNC asking for civil war'

Au contraire,

Opposers of SNC are asking for a civil war.

It is better to jaw jaw than to war war. We cannot continue to sweep Nigeria's problems under the rug.

Adeniran Adeboye

On Sep 22, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Biola Savage wrote:

'Supporters of SNC asking for civil war'
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013 BY ALLWELL OKPI 76 COMMENTS

Convener, Coalition of Northern Leaders, Dr. Junaid Mohammed
The National Coordinator of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has criticised the call for a sovereign national conference, saying the proponents of the conference are asking for another civil war.

In an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, Mohammed said the conference would not solve the problems of corruption, illiteracy and poverty facing the country and noted that such national conferences had yielded negative results in countries such as Niger Republic, Benin Republic, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He said, "The most spectacular failure of the national conference system is that of DR Congo. DR Congo is a big country with big problems. It's a classical example of what you call a failed state. They held a sovereign national conference with so much fanfare. At the end of the day, what they had was not only a coup but a revolution.

"So, I have news for those who believe national conference is the panacea for the problems of Nigeria. Most of the problems of Nigeria today are contextual problems. The sovereign national conference in Nigeria will not solve the problems of corruption, illiteracy and poverty. It will not give an honest and realistic government and it will not give a sincere and responsible revenue allocation formula. These are the problems of Nigeria.
"No country, so far, has disintegrated peacefully. What they are asking or demanding is that we go through another civil war. If they want that, they are more than welcome. But they should be man enough to come out and say we want to disintegrate this country and we are prepared for the consequences. The first consequence is war; the second is the attendant consequences of war. We don't have anything to fear."

Mohammed argued that the North had far more advantage over the South, when it comes to war, stating that any set of people who attempt to disintegrate the country would be crushed in the way of Biafra.

"The last time the Igbo carried out their own coup, in which they killed people from other ethnic groups and there was retaliation and they started talking about war, we had war. Who lost? They did.
Over one million lives were lost and over 90 per cent of them were Igbo. And the people who instigated the Igbo to go to war were Lagosians. When they took up the challenge, these people withdrew from them. If they want that now, I wish them good luck" he said.

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