Ohanaeze Women wing leade, Chief Mrs Calista Adimachukwu blasts President Buhari

PRESS RELEASE BY THE PRESIDENT GENERAL OHANAEZE IGBO WOMEN ORGANIZATION WORLDWIDE, CHIEF HON. MRS. CALISTA NKIRU ADIMACHUKWU AT HER RESIDENCE IN NNEWI, ANAMBRA STATE, ON THE 28TH OF JUNE, 2018.

The President General of Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide, Chief Hon. Mrs. Calista Adimachukwu in a statement released to the press, criticized President Buhari for glorifying himself as Mr. Integrity when he received The Urhobo Traditional Rulers, The Urhobo Progressive Union and Urhobo members in the All Progressive Congress at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to Hon. Calista Adimachukwu, how can president Buhari assess himself and give himself a pass mark. It is only Nigerians that can give him a pass mark for his integrity by voting for him in 2019. Buhari cannot be an examiner in his own exam. As a matter of fact, how can president Buhari glorify himself as Mr. Integrity when Dr. Junaid Mohammed has already questioned his integrity in his interview on Guardian Newspaper of 17th February, 2018, where be mentioned President Buhari's relations whom he gave government appointments without considering the rest of the nation, after taking oath of office as the president of Nigeria. The eye opening revelations by Dr. Junaid Mohammed has never been refuted by Buhari and his cronies. Those accusations which currently stands unchallenged have already damaged the integrity of Nigeria's Mr. Integrity. 

Judging this from all reasonable points of view, it is more than obvious that such act by Buhari has already put a question mark on his integrity claims. Similarly, that one sided and biased appointments from one section of the country is also corruption in every standard, Adimachukwu said.

Also Adimachukwu criticized President Buhari for claiming that those clamouring for restructuring have personal agenda. It is worthy of note that the issue of restructuring has been a major issue in the Nigerian polity for decades which has attracted wide support both from the ordinary citizens, intellectuals and politicians alike. Several constitutional conferences held in the 1990s to the last one that was held in 2014, have advanced restructuring of the polity as a solution to the issue of junior and senior partnership in the Nigerian project.

The democratic government of president Goodluck Jonathan having noticed the socio-political and economic deficiencies in the Nigerian federalism saw the need to address the fear of ethnic domination, marginalization, deprivations and injustice. This prompted his administration to organize a national conference on restructuring in 2014 with participants cutting across all the sections of Nigeria. How then can president Buhari say that the proponents of restructuring have personal agenda. For clarity sake, president Buhari needs to explain to Nigerians his own understanding of how the clamour for restructuring by Nigerians have become a personal agenda. Please what personal agenda is greater than the agitation to have a sense of belonging in Nigeria as well as ending the issue of junior and senior partnership in the Nigerian project.

Nigerians cannot continue to entertain a democratic government that acts like a military dictatorship. If president Buhari has any sense of duty and patriotism, he would revisit the reports of the 2014 National Confab to find a way to fast track the restructuring of Nigeria for an equitable union government, rather than tagging the clamour for restructuring as a personal agenda of some groups.

On Jun 28, 2018 2:39 PM, "calista Adimachukwu" <[email protected]> wrote:

PRESS RELEASE BY THE PRESIDENT GENERAL OHANAEZE IGBO WOMEN ORGANIZATION WORLDWIDE, CHIEF HON. MRS. CALISTA NKIRU ADIMACHUKWU AT HER RESIDENCE IN NNEWI, ANAMBRA STATE, ON THE 28TH OF JUNE, 2018.

The President General of Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organization Worldwide, Chief Hon. Mrs. Calista Adimachukwu in a statement released to the press, criticized President Buhari for glorifying himself as Mr. Integrity.

According to Hon. Calista Adimachukwu, how can president Buhari assess himself and give himself a pass mark. It is only Nigerians that can give him a pass mark for his integrity by voting for him in 2019. Buhari cannot be an examiner in his own exam. As a matter of fact, how can president Buhari glorify himself as Mr. Integrity when Dr. Junaid Mohammed has already questioned his integrity in his interview on Guardian Newspaper of 17th February, 2018, where be mentioned President Buhari's relations whom he gave government appointments without considering the rest of the nation, after taking oath of office as the president of Nigeria. The eye opening revelations by Dr. Junaid Mohammed has never been refuted by Buhari and his cronies. Those accusations which currently stands unchallenged have already damaged the integrity of Nigeria's Mr. Integrity. 

Judging this from all reasonable points of view, it is more than obvious that such act by Buhari has already put a question mark on his integrity claims. Similarly, that one sided and biased appointments from one section of the country is also corruption in every standard, Adimachukwu said.

Also Adimachukwu criticized President Buhari for claiming that those clamouring for restructuring have personal agenda. It is worthy of note that the issue of restructuring has been a major issue in the Nigerian polity for decades which has attracted wide support both from the ordinary citizens, intellectuals and politicians alike. Several constitutional conferences held in the 1990s to the last one that was held in 2014, have advanced restructuring of the polity as a solution to the issue of junior and senior partnership in the Nigerian project.

The democratic government of president Goodluck Jonathan having noticed the socio-political and economic deficiencies in the Nigerian federalism saw the need to address the fear of ethnic domination, marginalization, deprivations and injustice. This prompted his administration to organize a national conference on restructuring in 2014 with participants cutting across all the sections of Nigeria. How then can president Buhari say that the proponents of restructuring have personal agenda. For clarity sake, president Buhari needs to explain to Nigerians his own understanding of how the clamour for restructuring by Nigerians have become a personal agenda. Please what personal agenda is greater than the agitation to have a sense of belonging in Nigeria as well as ending the issue of junior and senior partnership in the Nigerian project.

Nigerians cannot continue to entertain a democratic government that acts like a military dictatorship. If president Buhari has any sense of duty and patriotism, he would revisit the reports of the 2014 National Confab to find a way to fast track the restructuring of Nigeria for an equitable union government, rather than tagging the clamour for restructuring as a personal agenda of some groups.