WHO WILL LOSE IF BIAFRA GOES? AND WILL THEY GO BACK TO THAT SMALL LANDSCAPE - SHULUWA

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Abu King Shuluwa has explained the type of restructuring or total breakup some Nigerians are clamoring for, and he will never support the restructure of break up

Read in pieces his statements

When you say Nigeria should be restructured, it is based on how you want it to be restructured. Do you want the states to continue or not? Do you want the regions or not. It depends on the type of restructuring that you want. I will support restructuring but I will never support break up of Nigeria. I knew from the beginning that if Jonathan had been re-elected, this country wouldn’t have been what it is today because so much money would have been in the hands of few people particularly people from the south-south. 

Even now, most of the people who have money in this country are from the south-south and they can do anything. You have the militants in the Niger Delta, the Biafran agitators, the Boko Haram who are totally against what Nigeria stands for and want to part ways. That is to confirm what I was saying about four years ago that everything that is going on from that time, if we had allowed Jonathan to succeed, Nigeria wouldn’t have been what it is today. 

The country would have broken up. But fair enough, if any section of the country now wants to go, let it go. If they can stand on their own, why not let them go? I believe in every section of Nigeria, we can find oil if we want to. If you can find oil in the desert, why can’t we find oil in northern Nigeria for instance? We used revenue generated from agriculture to explore the oil that we have today. 

We can still use the same agricultural revenue to explore the oil in the Benue valley and elsewhere too. Why should Biafra want to go? Who will lose if Biafra goes? If Biafra decides to go today, tell me the number of Igbo or Biafrans that will go back to that small landscape. What becomes of their assets in other parts of the country? Igbo are all over west Africa but in Nigeria, they decide not to be part of Nigeria. If they leave, what becomes of their assets in Lagos, Kano, Benue, Bauchi, Borno, Sokoto and so on? And if Biafrans go, the question is will the South-South be part of Biafra?

 He stated that corruption has been rebranded and has not gone down under Buhari's administration

Under Jonathan, corruption was very high and now, under Buhari, the corruption still continues and in fact, has been rebranded. If anybody tells you that corruption has gone down under Buhari, it’s a lie.

He added;

I would be surprised if he is even thinking of selling off the assets. I thought Buhari was progressive minded. I thought Buhari he for the Talakawas(poor people), and you are taking the assets that belong to the poor people to sell to the few rich ones? A very tiny percentage of rich people in this country will buy the assets and then keep the money outside this country. 

Then, the rate of unemployment would continue to sky-rocket because what usually happens is that whenever assets are sold, some workers in those assets would be sacked. Some people who were laid off when NEPA, NITEL and the Nigerian Airways were sold, have not been able to collect gratuity and pension till date. 

The solution to Nigeria’s problem is the leadership. For 56 years, we are where we are because bad leadership has been haunting Nigeria all through. We need a leader that is focused, a leader that knows Nigeria and Nigerians, a leader that knows every nook and cranny of this country, a leader that knows exactly how businesses are being conducted. Buhari is not a businessman. Buhari knows only the military constituency of this country. He does not know the political constituency. 

You can see that through the appointments he has made so far. Most of those he appointed are retired Generals. If Buhari gets to Benue here, he would not know the political class. All he knows are the Generals. Everywhere he makes appointments, he makes it among the Generals; the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Police. That’s all. And sadly, these people don’t form the bulk of what Nigeria is. So, we need a leader that knows Nigeria very well.