If Nigeria must survive the current onslaught unleashed on her by insurgents, all her leaders will have to selflessly drop their partisanship and come together to chart a path out of the present bleakness engulfing the whole nation.
This was the position canvassed by the Senator representing Ekiti Central, Babafemi Ojudu, while reacting to Monday's annihilation of the lives of many innocent Nigerians in the Nyanya bomb explosion in Abuja.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti, Ojudu painted a gory picture of the Boko Haram onslaught, adding, however, that hope is not lost if leaders across all party divides quickly realize that "this is not about politics, but about the lives of fellow human beings and the future of our country and that of our children.
“ We need a bipartisan approach to this problem now, and it is very urgent. The president should be state manly and call political leaders across the divide to discuss this issue and others issues threatening our collective existence before it is too late with the aim of finding lasting solutions to them”, he said.
“The ruling party cannot do it alone and if this is not done urgently, we all may be heading to Golgotha “, he added .
"The clips and the pictures of these dastardly acts, the mangled bodies, this tragic pall covering our nation that the rest of the world are seeing do not portray us as human beings. We must urgently put on our thinking caps by seeing this beyond politics. Nigeria belongs to us all. History will never judge us right if this country crumbles on us”, he further said
Ojudu adds that if President Goodluck Jonathan truly loves Nigeria and wants the nation to remain as one, he should, as a matter of urgency, summon leaders across political parties and other fields of endeavors to a roundtable where solutions can be offered to the monstrous insurgency which has eaten the entrails of the nation so deep that it is just a shadow of itself which could collapse any moment from now.
"It is saddening and highly repugnant that foreigners are even more concerned about us than us. Leaders of APC and PDP and those of the religions must quickly meet to proffer solutions to this. This is not the time for name-calling or blame game. If the solution to this onslaught on our collective sanity does not rest with us, let us seek it elsewhere. And the time is now!"
Ojudu added that it would be highly unpatriotic of any Nigerian to see the ongoing annihilation as solely a PDP problem and neither should the PDP see it as an opportunity to throw jibes at the opposition to make cheap political capital .
In fact the president, he said , should call his party spokesperson, Olisah Metuh to order on this issue as he is not helping matters.
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