The Adeyemi Ikuforiji Interview: ‘No Man Can Stop God’s Plan For Me In 2015′

Less than two years to the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria, many people are apprehensive about the political scheming and who goes for what position in the states and in the country.

However, one question that has kept re-occurring for the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. (Hon.) Adeyemi Ikuforiji is what would be his future political plan for 2015, but his ready answer has always been that all is in the hands of God.
The three times Speaker had a chat with journalists during the recently celebrated Ileya Festival and he bares his mind on the same question and speaks on other issues affecting the country. Thegazellenews.com was at the session and we present the excerpts here:

We all know that a lot of things are happening in the country, what is your message to the people as we celebrate Ileya Festival?

It is time for all of us to come together and imbibe the teachings of the two religions that we profess in the country. There is none of the religions that do not preach peace, they both preach orderliness, we are supposed to be our brothers’ keeper, which is the teaching of Christianity and Islam, no God ever sent anyone to go and kill on His behalf. We cannot say we want to serve God without serving His children. We all need to get our acts right. The Almighty God has brought all of us together for a purpose, if it has pleased God, He would have led the Hausas to the Sudan and not to where they are in Nigeria, if it has pleased Him, he would have left the Ibos to Gabon, not to where they are in Nigeria.

If it pleases Him, he would create the Ibibios of Nigeria and locate them in Cote D’Ivoire or Guinea. But, in His wisdom, He has brought us here together and we should all work to have the advantage of unity in diversity. Other nations that are multi-national in nature, when you look at them, they develop faster and they get things done better, they take advantage of the variety that is within their territory, we can do the same here.

God has given us lots of resources; He has blessed us beyond the level that He blessed other nations, why can’t we take advantage of it. I think it is time for all of us to really come together, think together and find a lasting solution to our problems and the problem we have are not really created by God, they are created by a few selfish individuals amongst us. I don’t understand why the few, very few could just have their ways over and above the rest.

What is your opinion about the proposed National Conference?

It is a good idea to have a National Conference, but the fear is that why is the President coming with a National Conference barely 14 months to another general election. To have a conference to decide on the future of a local government not to talk of a state takes months to organize to get meaningful results. How do you bring the different groups we have in the country together under 14 months to a general election, when will the campaign for a general election start? How many months are we going to spend on this? When are we starting the National Conference? When are we getting to the end of the conference? When will the President implement the solutions?

If the President is serious about it, I think this should have come into the forefront right in 2011, when President Goodluck Jonathan came into office from May 29th to 31 December 2011. He had enough time to think about a national conference and give us a direction and we would have felt that he is sincere. But, with the way it is now, with the disarray in the camp of the so-called biggest party in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is fast becoming the smallest party in Africa, I don’t think anybody in the nation will take the presidency serious.

But, Chief Ayo Adebanjo said that it doesn’t matter even if it causes a delay in the election…

I don’t think that is democratic, there should be no delay in the General Election, you want to elongate the tenure of the present government across the nation, you can’t do that, by May 29th 2015, we must have a new government in Abuja and in most of the states, which also had elections on May 29th, 2011, you cannot elongate the tenure of any government in any way.

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