The Yoruba and the Igbo, who have held Nigeria down for too long, are now realising their mistakes. Even as they are realising, some other people are planting more mistakes. But of course, the days of the Fulani are gone, whether they like it or not. I say what I think and people think I hate somebody. I cannot hate any group.
The days of Fulani domination are gone. They wasted it; nobody wasted it for them. With (President Muhammadu) Buhari in power, he has united the rest of Nigeria with their (Fulani) killings and their hired so-called herdsmen who come from Niger and all kinds of West African countries to kill in Nigeria. And the President is looking. How can Miyetti Allah come on television and accept the heinous crimes they have committed, saying it is so because their cows were killed? We don’t even know where the cows were and the President is there. The police and the army are there, and the man (Miyetti Allah) makes the announcement and goes back.
President Buhari said those who are pressing for the restructuring of Nigeria are selfish. That is an ignoramus statement. It doesn’t make sense at all. The small sense he makes, I will deal with it. Some people in the North think that restructuring only means resource control. What is worse, they think that resource control is such that we do optimal resource control, and today, we are in a system; tomorrow, we say resource control has come into effect; therefore no revenue from oil should go to any northern state. That is a lie. We have human souls and values in the South. You cannot switch off revenue from any state and expect them to survive.
What do you gain from that? So, we can have optimal resource control within optimal restructuring, and yet, not have any group suffer. What we do is this: we work out the optimal resource control and then have about five years implementation period whereby the Federal Government and all the people who want to help us in the development of alternative revenue sources; all the people who have been sharing oil revenue.
In the meantime, the monies from oil can still be spent in their areas but they will be for developing alternative revenue. It is myopic, short-sighted, inhuman and callous for somebody to think that, overnight, you do resource control and switch off revenue from all the other people. It is a matter of negotiation. Five years may not be long enough to develop alternative revenue sources for every unit of government. – Culled from Punch.
