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Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka
Barely three days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the only surviving nationalist and First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, has warned that signs from presidential campaigns signal grave dander for Nigeria.
He also alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in the right mental and physical state to continue to rule the country and urged Igbo and Nigerians to vote for the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Peter Obi, so as to save the country from total collapse.
The 90-year-old nationalist and freedom fighter, who addressed a press conference in his Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government Area country home, yesterday, noted that, “the campaigns for the presidential election have been characterised by so much bitterness and signs that signal grave danger for the country. The signs are not good at all.”
Stressing that he felt compelled to speak at this time, Amechi warned those who he said might be plotting to plunge the country into a major crisis that might threaten the very foundation of the federation to desist from such evil plot.
He said he was speaking the mind of late great nationalists, including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello, Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, Dennis Osadebay, Aminu Kano, M.I. Okpara, Maitama Sule, S.L. Akintola, Herbert Macaulay, Festus Okotie-Eboh, Nwafor Orizu, Joseph Tarka, Eyo Ita, Odeleye Fedahunsi, Muhammadu Ribadu, Zanna Bukar Dipchadima, Kola Balogun, Margret Ekpo and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.
