By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – Former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to take drastic action to address rising insecurity across the country.
Obi lamented that the current situation in the country is a stepping stone to anarchy.
He made this known in a press release issued on Sunday, May 2, 2021.
The ex-Governor explained that the widespread criminality across the country is a practical manifestation of cumulative years of leadership failure by successive leaders.
Obi recalled his warning that an abused society will rise up in future as a way of revenge, adding that he did realise the future was now.
He further said that following critical analysis of Nigeria’s post independence trajectory, the trajectory the country has been moving since Independence, it could be concluded that persistent corruption and total absence of merit are the major problems affecting Nigeria.
“Since Independence, corruption has remained the leitmotif of leadership failure in Nigeria.
“Painfully, at a time Nigeria ought to have moved on with other countries, we are still fixated on power supply, functional healthcare delivery and other basic things that ought not to be bothering us today. We are also saddled with the case of gross imbalance in national appointments as if others are mere spectators in Nigeria.
“Added to this is lack of future for our children,” he said, while calling on Nigerians to show genuine interest in the election of a leader with the will and the capacity to lead the country.
Obi continued by saying that since what will happen in the country in few months time is dependent on statecraft, President Buhari should immediately begin the process of healing Nigerians by talking to them and taking courageous actions aimed at reassuring all the regions that they are still part of the country.
In Obi’s words: “Mr. President can do this convincingly by immediately seeking real balance in his appointments and by taking immediate actions against those that have become notorious in killing and maiming follow Nigerians.”
Obi concluded by calling on different warring factions to lay down their arms and give peace a chance.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us, we cannot build by destroying, especially on matters that can still be solved through dialogue. Let Nigerians dialogue among themselves now,” Obi submitted.