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| Nigeria: Politics Is Not For Self Aggrandisement -dikko by Kobojunkie: 8:57pm On Feb 11, 2009 |
http://allafrica.com/stories/200902110253.html Politics should be for service and leadership and not an avenue to make money, and that selfless service was the guiding philosophy of the late Sir Ahmadu Bello, the former premier of northern Nigeria, Dr Umaru Dikko, ex-transport minister in the second republic has said. Dikko, who was speaking at a conference organised by the African Youth for Conflict Resolution at Arewa House yesterday to commemorate the lifetime of Sardaunan Sokoto Ahmadu Bello, said the nation's current political leaders see politics as a money making venture. He advised such leaders to leave politics and go to business if they are interested in money. According to the elder statesman, "the two do not go together at the same time and even if you force them together, there will be crisis". He said the life of the late premier was a celebration of selfless service because the only times that Sardauna was sad was when he had no money to give people. In spite of all this, Dikko also said, he executed a lot of projects for the region. "Today, what Nigeria as a whole was earning is not up to what a state is receiving, yet where is the money?", he asked rhetorically. Recalling that he saw Sardauna a day before he was assassinated, Dikko narrated events that occurred after the death of the northern premier. According to him, every region of the country wanted to succeed apart from the mid western region which stood for a united Nigeria. He said the northern delegation to the Lagos conference mandated him to return to the north and intimate the then governor of northern Nigeria, General Hassan Usman Katsina. Upon getting to the north, Dikko continued, General Katsina asked Ali Akilu to accompany him back to Lagos, with a mandate to support the unity of Nigeria. Thereafter, the northern delegates went to the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, to explain the north's new stand. Gowon, according to him, asked them to return to the north and explain to the people why the delegates had a change of heart. The elder statesman further said a tripartite sensitisation committee comprising Alhaji Aliyu Makaman Bida, representing NPC, Malam Aminu Kano and Mr Joseph Tarka, representing NEPU and UMBC respectively, was set up to tour the entire north to explain the region's new position. Dikko was the secretary of the committee. According to him, the north further advised General Gowon to break Emeka Ojukwu's secessionist bid by creating more states across the country. The former transport minister also revealed that if Ojukwu was allowed to secede, he would have used the oil wealth in the eastern region to further make incursions into the north. He said creating states at that time proved a political master stroke because it preserved the unity. |
| Re: Nigeria: Politics Is Not For Self Aggrandisement -dikko by asha80(m): 9:27pm On Feb 11, 2009 |
A confirmed rogue given lecture  |
| Re: Nigeria: Politics Is Not For Self Aggrandisement -dikko by mustafar1: 9:30pm On Feb 11, 2009 |
 i really dont know what to react to or how to react. thats odd  |
| Re: Nigeria: Politics Is Not For Self Aggrandisement -dikko by RICHIEBOI1(m): 9:47pm On Feb 11, 2009 |
he should keep his morals to himself abeg jo! and return those billions(rice money) he stole back in da 80's. |
| Re: Nigeria: Politics Is Not For Self Aggrandisement -dikko by Muza(m): 11:48pm On Feb 11, 2009 |
Seriously the man is broke now,ill-gotten wealth does not last |
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