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"Pres. Jonathan Is Waging War Against Nigeria" - Gen. Buhari

Gen. Buhari, a former Head of State, says President Jonathan is waging a war against the country and is hoping to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.

Former Nigeria military Head of State, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, (rtd.), has come hard on incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, saying that the president is waging a war on Nigeria by using the “common wealth to subvert the system.”

Reacting to the impeachment of the Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako, and the threat of impeachment against Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, Buhari made the accusation in a statement he personally signed and made available to journalists in Kaduna.

In the statement titled, “Pull back Nigeria from the brink,” the former military ruler lamented that the recourse to impeachment as a punitive measure against “out-of-favour” governors was an indication that Nigeria was gradually drifting into anarchy.

Hear what Buhari said:

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Never before have I seen a Nigerian President deploy federal institutions in the service of partisanship as we are witnessing now. Never before have I seen a Nigerian President utilise the common wealth to subvert the system and punish the opposition, all in the name of politics.

Our nation had suffered serious consequences in the past for egregious acts that are not even close to what we are seeing now. It is time to pull the brakes.

Our country has gone through several rough patches, but never before have I seen a Nigerian President declare war on his own country as we are seeing now.

In my capacity as a former Head of State, rather than a politician, I have spoken to President Jonathan in private over these issues, but indications are that the strategy has not yielded positive fruits.

I cannot, just because I am an opposition politician, fail to do what is expected of me as a former Head of State to help rescue our nation in times of great trouble and palpable uncertainty. History will not be kind to me if I sit back while things turn bad, just so that no one will accuse me of partisanship.

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Yes, I am a politician. Yes, I am in the opposition. Yes, there is the tendency for my statement to be misconstrued as that of a politician rather than a statesman. But I owe it as a matter of duty and honour, and in the interest of our nation, to speak out on the dangerous trajectory that our nation is heading.

I can say, in all sincerity, that I have seen it all, as an ordinary citizen, a military officer, a state governor, a minister, a Head of State, a man who has occupied many other sensitive posts and a politician.

Whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan is behind the gale of impeachment or the utilisation of desperate tactics to suffocate the opposition and turn Nigeria into a one-party state, what cannot be denied is that they are happening under his watch, and he cannot pretend not to know, since that will be akin to hiding behind one finger.

Let no one, whether the leader or the led, the high or the low, a member of the ruling or the opposition do anything to torpedo the system. Let no one, whether on the altar of personal ambition or pretension to higher patriotic tendencies, do anything that can detonate the keg of gunpowder on which the nation is sitting.

It is time for all concerned to spare a thought for the ordinary citizens who have yet to see their hopes, dreams and aspirations come to reality, within the general context of nationhood.

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