Factional leader of the O'odua Peoples Congress (OPC), a pan-Yoruba group, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore those calling for his resignation. Addressing Journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, Frederick Fasheun said most of those calling for his resignation are doing it based on their personal interests and not in the interest of the country.
In his words, "It will be a bad precedence for a President to leave his office because of terrorists demanding his removal. We cannot override the National Assembly to remove him," "Everybody is thinking of his primordial interest above national interest. Nobody seems genuinely committed to the unity of Nigeria, which is very worrisome,''
"We have been calling for a sovereign national conference to solve our national question. If we don't sit down together to negotiate our future, Nigeria will implode and pass into history," he said.
"If we continue to patch this pseudo-federalism together by the glue of the faulty 1999 constitution, the ethnic nationalities will continue to wallow in suspicion, hunger, anger, poverty, ignorance and superstition."
"No country has ever survived two civil wars. We have experienced one. Another civil war will be Nigeria's Armageddon,''
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