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Sunday, October 17 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News We’ll resist Obasanjo ‘with our blood’ —Wada Nas MOHAMMED KABIR, Kano NIGERIANS will resist "with their blood," any attempt to give President Olusegun Obasanjo a third consecutive four-year term in office, a former Special Duties Minister, Alhaji Wada Nas has said. Alhaji Nas, national president of the Peoples Salvation Party (PSP) claimed to have uncovered a plot by federal and state legislators to facilitate such a move. According to him, the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly are "central" to an alleged plot to facilitate Chief Obasanjo’s stay in power beyond 2007 when his second term ends. Speaking in Kano, he said Nigerians would rise up to resist any such attempt. But Alhaji Nas was silent on his role as Special Duties Minister to Gen. Sani Abacha who as military dictator (1993-98) sought to transmute to a civilian president using the only five teleguided registered political parties. Alhaji Nas was central in that scheme and was in fact, the scourge of critics of that brutal regime. But he alleged on Friday that moves were on to facilitate the president’s third term through a constitutional amendment that must be ratified by the federal and state parliaments. "There is no doubt that the national and state assemblies are central to the plot to change the constitution to favour Obasanjo’s possible stay in Aso Rock beyond 2007 and once the constitution is changed and he scale through, the international community will accept it," he claimed. "Our legislators all over the country must be careful not to throw Nigeria into a turmoil as presently, nobody can predict its consequences." Alhaji Nas emphasized that, "for sure, any attempt, through dubious constitutional changes, or whatever means, including the fomenting of trouble, in order for Obasanjo to continue to misrule Nigeria, for another five years, after 2007, would definitely be resisted no matter the forces behind the misguided plans." "It is futile for any one to think that all Nigerians are that docile, therefore those devising strategies for Obasanjo do not want this country to remain in peace," he said. "Obasanjo is honour bound to respect the constitution and the vow he made for his own good and that of the country," he said.

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