Nigeria
will not break up – Jonathan.
Vanguard
on MAY
27, 2012
By
BEN AGANDE, ABUJA.
President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday said
despite the several challenges the country is facing as a nation it
would continue to remain one indivisible country.
The
president who stated this during the church service to commemorate
his one year in office said “I want assure all Nigerians that
Nigeria cannot be disintegrated by any form and the present terror
attacks across the country came as a thief in the night.
My
request for Nigerians is for us to continue in prayers while we do
our best to satisfy the needs of all citizens.”
He
said his government is committed to ensuring that the country attain
its potentials.
In
his sermon, the former primate of the Anglican Church, Rev Peter
Akinola called on president Jonathan to ensure that corrupt people in
his government are flushed out.
He
told the president to “flush out from your government all political
jobbers and predators that hang around the Presidency. Your
government is too large, they make government redundant.
Send
them back to farms to grow cassava, cocoa etc. We know you are not an
army general, but since Nigerians have voted you as the commander in
chief, you are a general of generals”.
On
the violence being perpetrated by Boko Haram, Rev Akinola urged the
president not to negotiate with the group, noting that “You open
yourself to ridicule if you open dialogue to a group that has made
the country ungovernable. Don’t treat them with kid gloves. You
don’t.
Dialogue
with crime. The problem is not Jonathan, it is because we started in
wrong way and continue same way”.
Fwd by Dr.Kayode Olamijulo