Prince Tony Momoh, elder statesman and former Minister of Information in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on Nigeria’s 59th Independence anniversary and other issues of national interests. Excerpts:

As Nigeria marks 59 years of Independence today, how will you describe the journey so far?

We have shown how we cannot grow unless we put development before democracy. We are celebrating democracy, not development. Democracy is a way we have chosen to govern the system, just like choosing other forms of government such as monarchy, military rule and so on. There is nowhere in Nigeria where there is democracy without development. Anywhere you have recurrent overshadowing capital, then it is important to go back to the drawing board. Recurrent should not be more than 20 to 25 per cent.

What about threat from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which has threatened to secede owing to alleged marginalisation of Igbos?

Talk is cheap. Who told you they went to Japan to embarrass the President? I saw a report by Nnamdi Kanu that they have surrounded Buhari’s hotel and he can’t come out, did he not come out? Why can’t IPOB arrest him as they have threatened? Is it not the same Kanu that said Buhari is Jubril of Sudan? IPOB is a group of agitators who are trying to seek succour for their own people and that is legitimate as long as it is through due process. If it is not through due process, then they have the laws of Nigeria to face.

Some are asking President Buhari to dialogue with Nnamdi Kanu same way former President Olusegun Obasanjo did with Asari Dokubo during the period of unrest in Niger Delta region. Are you in support of this move?

When Asari Dokubo accepted Obasanjo’s invitation and came to Aso Villa, what happened to him? He was detained! Go and find out. If today, Buhari calls Nnamdi Kanu and says ‘come and dialogue with me’, it’s an approach. Dialogue is always better but the fact is, how do you call someone to come and dialogue with you when the person said you are dead and you don’t exist?

What is the way forward?

The way forward is peace. Anybody calling for war will see the consequence of war. War never solves any problem. Rather, it creates more problems.

https://www.independent.ng/nigeria-cant-grow-unless-development-comes-before-democracy-momoh/

Igbos lost out in 2019, they will still lose out in 2023

dheilaw1:
Igbos lost out in 2019, they will still lose out in 2023

Amadioha kee you dia....

You want to dialogue with Jubril now.



Mumu people.

dheilaw1:
Igbos lost out in 2019, they will still lose out in 2023

Did you win in 2019,tell me what you and your region won.

This man and is diarrhoea mouth... Mmchew

dheilaw1:
[s]Igbos lost out in 2019, they will still lose out in 2023[s/]

trash

simonlee:

Amadioha kee you dia....

E pain am.

This one eyed Sunday is ass licking Buhari for some crumbs. Mkpi

They don't know what they want that is why they don't know how to do it .They mix politics and stupidity with their fight for freedom which means they are just fighting the shadow of yams that didn't reach their mouths.if you want to insult me Tell me why you failed to utilize the opportunity you had during 2019 Election by boycott the said election which may give you much more recognition but you all resulted to be Atikulated .only the president can't give you what you want but the whole country and you resulted blackmailing,Insulting only the person of president which if you don't know it won't give any positive result for you.Buhari was only treating you like opposition ,sabotage and enemy of country simply bcs of the way you comport yourselves on what you are looking for which you don't know .

It is wrong by all standards for anyone to call Buhari a dead man just because he is lifeless.

It is very rude and grossly unacceptable.

Lol.
Dem wan talk with ghost ni

Okay

Just give them lelerendum na

So he actually died in February 2017??

Frankdoz5:
Buhari is dead and buried in Saudi Arabia. Tell thar impostor, jubril to remove his cap.

Okay

.

Abi o.

Why we are backward is that, the country is rule by a lifeless man and every thing stand still, the worse of it is that our presido is unstable man.

Smhow he is saying the truth

is that so?

Since Buhari is a dead man, he can dialogue with Biafran leader Odimegwu Ojukwu also a dead man. Spirit talk to spirit

Are they even ready for dialogue??

Zoo must collapse on afonja boys head

hisexcellency34:
Talk is cheap.

If today, Buhari calls Nnamdi Kanu and says ‘come and dialogue with me’, it’s an approach. Dialogue is always better but the fact is, how do you call someone to come and dialogue with you when the person said you are dead and you don’t exist?


https://www.independent.ng/nigeria-cant-grow-unless-development-comes-before-democracy-momoh/

Hmmmmm...
as my japanese pipos use to say: Good thinking, Good product
God bless u Sir Momoh,
May ur days be long!
Oya, every enemy of state.......

hisexcellency34:
Prince Tony Momoh, elder statesman and former Minister of Information in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on Nigeria’s 59th Independence anniversary and other issues of national interests. Excerpts:

As Nigeria marks 59 years of Independence today, how will you describe the journey so far?

We have shown how we cannot grow unless we put development before democracy. We are celebrating democracy, not development. Democracy is a way we have chosen to govern the system, just like choosing other forms of government such as monarchy, military rule and so on. There is nowhere in Nigeria where there is democracy without development. Anywhere you have recurrent overshadowing capital, then it is important to go back to the drawing board. Recurrent should not be more than 20 to 25 per cent.

What about threat from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which has threatened to secede owing to alleged marginalisation of Igbos?

Talk is cheap. Who told you they went to Japan to embarrass the President? I saw a report by Nnamdi Kanu that they have surrounded Buhari’s hotel and he can’t come out, did he not come out? Why can’t IPOB arrest him as they have threatened? Is it not the same Kanu that said Buhari is Jubril of Sudan? IPOB is a group of agitators who are trying to seek succour for their own people and that is legitimate as long as it is through due process. If it is not through due process, then they have the laws of Nigeria to face.

Some are asking President Buhari to dialogue with Nnamdi Kanu same way former President Olusegun Obasanjo did with Asari Dokubo during the period of unrest in Niger Delta region. Are you in support of this move?

When Asari Dokubo accepted Obasanjo’s invitation and came to Aso Villa, what happened to him? He was detained! Go and find out. If today, Buhari calls Nnamdi Kanu and says ‘come and dialogue with me’, it’s an approach. Dialogue is always better but the fact is, how do you call someone to come and dialogue with you when the person said you are dead and you don’t exist?

What is the way forward?

The way forward is peace. Anybody calling for war will see the consequence of war. War never solves any problem. Rather, it creates more problems.

https://www.independent.ng/nigeria-cant-grow-unless-development-comes-before-democracy-momoh/

Nice share !