Former National President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba has accused the presidential candidates of leading parties in the country of not addressing the main issues confronting Nigeria in their campaign.
Agbakoba made this accusation in a letter addressed to the Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun and Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mua’zu.
He said instead of the personality clashes between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) during campaigns, they should discuss the main issues confronting the country.
He said “There will be no way the 2015 will be successful if we do not address the issue of how we live together. There is no way the 2015 elections will be successful if Nigeria is unable to resolve the impending doom that the likes of Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi and Pastor Tunde Bakare have been talking about.”
“Nigeria is a nation with diverse ethnic groups. A national order is urgently needed to manage our diversity. It is my view that Nigeria can only resolve the existing conflagration of diversity if we ask and seek answers to the questions that must be answered by all of us Nigerians.
He described the issues as the question of “One, do we want to remain as one country? Two, if the answer is yes, under what conditions? I respectfully suggest that the late Bola Ige’s questions are well framed as the issues we need to resolve to create a national order.
“It is in this light that the late Aka-Bashorun, my most illustrious predecessor as NBA president, articulated the collective disappointment of Nigerians by making the call for Sovereign National Conference as far back as the 1980s, but it is regrettable that all conferences organised to discuss Nigeria’s national order have been unsuccessful.”