Former Kogi Governor, Chief Clarance Olafemi has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Message has put to rest all agitations and also overheating of politics of the third term.
Olafemi via a statement he released on Saturday in Lokoja said the comment has further convinced the people that he has the interest of Nigeria at heart.
The former governor noted that Buhari has been able to hold Nigeria together in the last four years after inheriting a lot of problems.
“He met Boko Haram, he met Niger Delta, he met the Benue crisis, he never invented them and none came during his tenure.
“I want to say that I congratulate him because he is a president that came during turbulence. He Is a president that I personally respect. For me the chapter is close there is no third term for Buhari. He came at a difficult time when the economy was in shambles.”
Chief Olafemi, also hoped that the President will consolidate on making sure that Nigeria remained united in 2020, noting that there are many fragmented and structured in the country.
“Any attempt to spark war there will never be anything like Nigeria. His (Buhari) focus should be how to hand over a United Nigeria by the time he is going in 2023,” he said.
Commenting on Kogi politics, he said he never regretted the role he played during the election, adding that his primary responsibility is to protect his people who are a minority.
“They are smaller than the central and east in terms of population but we are well blessed. But there is no way we can be governor unless we partner with other senatorial districts in the state.
“I governed this state accidentally, we must rule this state as a people and if they don’t I will move my people to join either Ekiti or Kwara. If our current struggle does not work I have the capacity to move my people out of Kogi State.
“When I met the governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, he expressed his concern that my people are not with the ruling party; that they did not win any House of Assembly, they did not win Senate, they did not win general election, they did not win for the president, they did not win the senatorial election.
“On what ground do we want to now aspire to be governor and we are from the same old Kwara, and I told him that I will talk to my people and turned them around.
“To God be the glory I achieved that. If I did not leave PDP I will not have achieved that. I proved to the governor that my people have moved. It is now left for him to be fair, it is now left for him to think and justified my commitment and sacrifice.”
He also stated that he did not collect single Kobo from APC during the election, but said 2023 is a do or die.
“He must make sure that come 2023 there is fairness otherwise some of us who want to retire will come back as a combatant and we would change the narrative,” he warned.
