OLUFEMI Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, has said that the acting vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo will take over the mantle of leadership should President Muhammadu Buhari die today and nothing will happen.
Fani-Kayode was reacting to a statement credited to Dr. Junaid Mohammed where the latter said should Mr. Buhari not be able to complete his tenure forcing Mr. Osinbajo to take over the North will clamour for a fresh power to return to the zone.
He stated this in his article titled “Junaid Mohammed’s Bunkum and the final battle for Nigeria’s Independence.”
“…….those who see Buhari as their representative and are not being treated justly are going to claim their own rights and the only way you are going to resolve the issue is that after Buhari ’s administration , you have it zoned to a certain part of the country for eight to 10 years . Whether this makes sense in a democracy or not is beside the point,” Dr. Junaid Mohammed was quoted by Punch Newspaper on it May 14 publication to have said.
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The former minister who described the statement as ‘bunkum’ said there is no such thing as “insisting” on anything in a democratic setting.
“Dr. Junaid Mohammed is out of touch with reality and he speaks only for the lunatic ultra-conservative wing of the core northern Muslim ruling elite to which he belongs.”
“The truth is that if anything happens to Buhari nothing will happen and Nigeria will move on.
“If anything happens to Buhari, the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will continue his term of office with full powers, he will have the support of the Nigerian people and he will finish his tenure hail and hearty.”
Continuing he said, “If anything happens to Buhari in 2019 Nigeria may have a southern President after which the country may be restructured.
“If anything happens to Buhari the south and the Middle Belt will NOT go on bended knee to beg and appease the north and we will not be moved or intimidated by the usual threats of carnage and violence by the likes of dark and sinister men like Junaid Mohammed.
“If anything happens to Buhari it will be a defining moment and we will know whether ours will remains a nation at peace with itself or a theater of bloody conflict and civil war.”
Reacting to a statement credited to Chief A.K. Horsefall, the former Director General of Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS) and National Intelligence Service (NIA) and one of the most reverred and respected figures in the intelligence community, that “Nigeria is sitting on a time-bomb”.
Fani-kayode said “He is absolutely right. Some of us warned that things would eventually come to this as far back as two years ago but as usual the shallow-minded skeptics, the ignorant dullards, the undiscerning fools and the cowardly compromisers amongst us brushed aside our concerns and paid no heed to our fears.”
