Guardian There Will be An Interim Government In 2015, Says Braithwaite Friday, 21 November 2014 23:47 Written by SEYE OLUMIDE Category: National ELDER statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has said there will be an interim administration in Nigeria to resolve critical foundational issues and not election in 2015. In a statement yesterday, the social crusader and one of the foremost elder delegates to the just concluded national conference said that the people of Nigeria, whose sovereign power overrides the unwieldy purloined power, long, exercised by an infinitesimal but highly corrupt and recycled military/political cartel of a discernible neo-colonial culture and mindset “are now set to retrieve the soul of our patrimony and thereby realize the great and abundant potentials of our diverse nationalities.” The statement reads: “We do not share the artificially contrived and concocted enthusiasm of the projected elections of 2015 for the following reasons: “The elections are purposed by the same backward, but highly corrupt military/political cartel to continue the rapacious and merciless exploitation of the masses. The evidence of this, is clear in the fact that the preparations are being undertaken by the uncredible electoral Commission - INEC - under the discredited anti-people, military Constitution Decree 24 of 1999. Incredible! “A “Constitution” that clothes bare-faced criminals in public-offices with immunity. A Constitution that denies the peoples of Nigeria their natural right of fiscal federalism and autonomy, and makes every Governor of each state, a Caesarean Emperor over the people, totally unaccountable - with lame-duck or accomplice houses of Assemblies.” Braithwaite noted that the Centre is made overbearing, making nonsense of the freedoms, inherent in and the bedrock - of Federalism or even Confederalism. According to him, “A Constitution, which by any modern criteria, is a prescription for underdevelopment and chaos!! “A constitution that promotes the emasculation of basic institutions of democracy, like the judiciary and free and fair elections. The Electoral Commission, INEC is a tool in the hand of the executive, both at the Federal and State levels.” He said the present systemic but disgraceful attempt by INEC to foist a two party or even one party system on Nigerians, is a clear testimony of the subservience of that body to their pay master. Wondering whether the judiciary free? He said, “The public knows the answer to this question, particularly when it comes to election issues. “The last straw that has broken the camel’s back in all of the wild projected elections 2015, is the widespread insecurity and bloodshed in the land, especially in parts of the North of the nation.” The elderstateman said those who are preparing for elections 2015 seem oblivious to the glaring truth that the circumstances of this nation-state dictate that the twin foundational issues of According to him, “Constitutional reconstruction of the nation-state and insurgency MUST first of all be resolved satisfactorily before any election to realize their own selfish appetite. “Anything short of this would surely be catastrophic. Let us do everything to avert this. “In default, there will be an interim Government in Nigeria to resolve these critical foundational issues.”
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