Governor Kwankwaso Warns Jonathan Over Fake Constitution

Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has warned President Goodluck Jonathan on the dangerous consequences of the new constitution he is purportedly trying to smuggle in for Nigeria, through the recently concluded 2014 National Conference. “Of course all people that love this country and really understand the situation we are today and the likely consequences of another brand new Constitution which the Presidency wants to use to start eight years beginning from 2015 certainly is a very dangerous development. “And those that should care (presidency), those that should understand, are very busy on the air working and helping themselves to remain (in power) forever. He said he has always reminded people that when the issue of insecurity started in the Northeast, many did not know that one day it would come to his part of the country. “Now we share it, is also in the North central and now it is crossing border to the south. I am sure you must be aware that in some parts of this country now, they have flags other than green white green and this is terribly, terribly unfortunate.” The governor gave the clear warning during an interview with journalists in his office in Kano on Wednesday, his Director of Press and Public Relations, Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, said in a statement. Governor Kwankwaso said the planned introduction of the so-called “New Constitution” may have adverse repercussions on the unity of the nation, pointing out that some parts of the country already have flags different from the constitutional green-white-green flag. Kwankwaso recalled that when he told journalists before the commencement of the National Conference that President Jonathan may introduce a new constitution, many people thought it was a joke but said that it has now become a reality. He told his interviewers he had received many calls from Abuja and from delegates to the National Conference that the ‘2014 New Constitution’ had been drafted and confirmed. He said the federal government was bent on embarking upon what he described as “a kangaroo referendum” to favour the so-called draft constitution and inflate figures to support it, so as to force it on Nigerians. “I appreciate the elasticity of our people and I believe that elasticity has a limit if they keep up pulling and pulling it would come to a time when they will not endure any more. That is why I think the good people of this country should speak because some of the consequences people are now seeing will affect everybody”, he warned. “What is happening today in Nigeria, if 10 percent of it can happen anywhere in the world I don’t think that leadership can’t stand and is very dangerous to all of us,” Kwankwaso asserted.