Saraki, Lawan
A pressure group, the Pan Yoruba Political Movement for Confederation, and the Ilaje community in Lagos, have urged the National Assembly members to resolve the present crises in the hallowed chambers.
They also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe corruption in the states and government agencies to show his commitment to a new Nigeria.
In a joint statement in Lagos on Sunday, the groups said they were worried that the crises had continued, thereby slowing down the business of governance.
A statement signed by the Director of Publicity and Strategy, James Omojuwa, urged the parties concerned to work together and solve the crises once and for all.
The statement said, “For instance, we noticed disloyalty, betrayal and insubordination among our lawmakers. There is a need to resolve the crises fairly and firmly.
“Also, the Federal Government should move across the states and government agencies and probe cases of corruption there. For instance, the Ilaje communities of Ondo State have been neglected despite huge sums of money accruing to the state from the Oil Derivation Account.
“But it is the availability of oil in Ilaje communities that qualifies Ondo State as an oil producing state. We need the President to probe what happened to the money.”
The groups added that a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu and a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, should be regarded as the twin leaders of the Yorubas.
Omojuwa said, “We have resolved to support Tinubu and Obasanjo and their decisions because they are the twin leaders of the Yoruba people. Nobody should ridicule them.
“Obasanjo rescued the Yoruba people from political oblivion when he became the civilian president of the fourth republic. Tinubu also contributed human and material resources to the present dispensation.”
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