John Oyegun, immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was the kind of leader Nigeria needs.
According to Oyegun, Obasanjo words are “infinitely weighty and cannot be ignored.”
Oyegun told New Telegraph that Obasanjo’s comment on “Islamisation and Fulanisation” might have been seen as a religious bigotry.
Omokoshaban.com earlier reported that while delivering a lecture on May 18 in Delta state, Obasanjo said that the Boko Haram crisis had become an agenda for “West African Fulanization, African Islamisation.”
Oyegun said, Obasanjo “is addressing an issue that is with us.”
The former APC National Chairman said that while he may not tag the crisis as “Islamisation, there is no question at all that it calls for worry because these people exist virtually in every state of the federation and, very soon, it would lead to unpleasantness in all over the country.
Well, I respect him. Every nation needs a man like that just like the people’s SAN, Chief Gani Fawhemi and a lot of activists.
“What is happening is that because of his status, his experience, his background, what he says becomes infinitely weighty and cannot be ignored.
“I just told you that this issue of so-called Fulani herdsmen and the copy cat that have followed it has to be addressed.
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