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June 30, 2005
‘Obasanjo has lost control of conference’
Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Maxi Okwu, said the National Conference has gone into stormy waters, adding that President Olusegun Obasanjo who set it up has lost control of it.
By Chuks Ehirim
Senior Correspondent, Abuja
Okwu who spoke to Daily Independent in Abuja, said “the conference has gone into stormy waters because it is like a horse that has bolted from the barn and the owner has lost control”.
“When some of us noticed the caliber of persons coming to the conference and the issues on the Nigerian political tables, we knew that Obasanjo might want the conference to go right or left.”
On the agitation of the South-South political zone for resource control, Okwu said his party is in full support of it adding: “APGA as a political party supports the agitations of the South-South. It is only fair, if we are running a true federation”.
He condemned those against the demand of the South-South for at least 25 per cent derivation saying: “All those kicking against their wish do not mean well for this country. Look at the statistics put forward by the South-South and South-East, showing how revenue had been allocated from 1960 to date”.
He argued that it was military politics that brought the derivation percentage down to 13 per cent.
Posted by Publisher at June 30, 2005 05:33 PM
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