Amid agitation by leaders of
the South East for the creation of an
additional state in the zone, Kaduna
State governor and chairman of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Committee
on True Federalism, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that it would be a
grave injustice to agitate for “equal unequals”.According to him, even in population and resources, the regions of the country are not uniformly endowed.
He, however, said though the
representatives of the agitators were few in number, “the majority must always
win.” Speaking at a town hall meeting organised by his committee to get inputs
from youths, the governor said when people talk about restructuring, most
proponents think of their zones while no one thinks of the country. He said:
“The greatest injustice is trying to make equals unequal and unequals equal;
things are not done like that. What do I mean by that?
There are those who have
said that Nigeria and United States are the same. “It is just like saying
everyone who is six feet, five can play basket ball. As human beings, we are
equal but you cannot come and stand here and say we should create nine states
in each zone, Nigeria is not equal, likewise the population and resources, you
can’t do that. “The representatives of the agitators are few in number and so
the majority must always win.
The president of the country exists, the Senate
exists and there are 36 states of the federation. ‘’We the old ones are still
here, some of us are good, some are bad, like the youths but you must learn to
live with us because we are still here. “Now, some people say because we have
oil, let us have resource control. We must think of what is in the overall
interest of Nigeria. ‘’By that I mean what works for everyone. Because what
works for one part of the county will not necessarily work for the other and so
as long as we are from one country, we must seek for what is of common good,
not the one that serves one interest group.
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