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| Abiola; Symbol Of June 12 Struggles In Nigeria |
The June 12 Coalition of Democratic
Formations (J12CODEF) congratulates Nigeria and the Nigerian people whom God
has spared despite all the upheavals of 2012 to witness a new year 2013
and it is our fervent prayer that the year shall be peaceful and prosperous for
us all.
As we begin the new year 2013, it is
our deepest wish that our public officials at all levels of government be alive
to their constitutional responsibilities in recognizing the enormous
responsibilities on their shoulders so as to ameliorate the ever worsening
living conditions of Nigerians who are always enjoined to make painful and
limitless sacrifices without commensurate returns.
We are also using this medium to
enjoin Nigerians to realize that the country’s salvation lies in the hands of
us all rather than only the public officials and so it is incumbent on us all
as a people to resolutely and legitimately demand responsible and responsive
yearnings to our hopes and aspirations from our elected representatives at all
times.
We are as well using this medium to
admonish both the govern and the governed that there is urgent
need to examine the present unitary structure of the Nigerian state which has
kept us backward and has contributed in no small way for our being an
embarrassment in the comity of civilized people. The only and sure road to a
peaceful, happy and prosperous Nigeria lies in the convocation of a Sovereign
National Conference (SNC) where all the ethnic Nationalities and groups
cohabited in the geographical expression called Nigeria will discuss unfettered
for the first time the essence and structure of their coexistence in a new
country that will come out of the process.
It is never too late in the day to
amend one’s wrong steps no matter how long, and so it our deep desire at June
12 Coalition of Democratic Formations (J12CODEF) that the Almighty will give us
all the wisdom and grace to realize that the problems besetting us as a people
can only be surmounted if we walk the talk rather than prayers alone because
even the Christian Holy Book, the Bible admonishes us that prayer without work
is vanity.
As we commence the journey of the
year 2013, it is our wish that we all be strong, focused, patriotic, honest,
determined and resolute in demanding the immediate convocation of a genuine
Sovereign National Conference (SNC) and not a government sponsored magomago one
to discuss the basis of our existence as a country and as well find lasting
solutions other man made problems confronting us.
Here’s wishing all Nigerians a
peaceful, happy and prosperous 2013.
Baba
Omojola,
Chairman
Nelson Ekujumi
Gen. Sec.
