Brave Dickson
The people of Ijaw extraction in the Niger Delta region have said Nigeria will breakup if President Muhammadu Buhari gives power to a northerner in 2023 presidential election.
The President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), Kennedy West made their position known in an interview with our correspondent.
He said: “The north knows that the south is the region that is sustaining Nigeria and that is why the north wants to remain in power but Nigeria will breakup if a northerner rules us in 2023.
“The north is colluding with President Muhammadu Buhari to enact obnoxious laws that will economically enslave the south.
That is why with the rubber stamp national assembly, the president wants to enact the water resources bill and the kind of petroleum industry bill that will enrich the north and impoverish the south.
“Look at the call for true federalism, Buhari keeps telling us that, that is the duty of the national assembly just because it will favour the south too but anything that will favour only the north, this same Buhari will influence the national assembly to get it done.
“This northerners that are saying one Nigeria will one day go on their own, but their agenda is to milk us dry first before they will break way from this country.”
The MOSIEND president further called on all ethnicities In the region to close ranks and work in the collective interest of the region.
He also warned politicians from the region to stop being used by the central government to marginalize their southern origin.
