Jang’s NGF Faults Odimegwu On Call For Military Intervention

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Clik here to view.Factional chair­man of the Ni­geria Gover­nors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Plateau State, Jo­nah Jang, has flayed the recent call for a military coup in Nigeria.

Former chair­man of the National Population Commis­sion (NPC), Eze Fes­tus Odimegwu, was reported to have called for military intervention in an interview with Thisday Newspaper.

Reacting to the call in a statement signed by the Sole Adminis­trator of the Forum, Osaro Onaiwu, Governor Jang de­scribed the statement credited to the former NPC boss as disturbing and surprising.

He advised the Odimegwu to refrain from calling for military rule, remind­ing him that the world had since moved on from regressive mili­tary regimes.

The Forum’s chair­man further said a comparison of the gi­ant strides the nation had witnessed within 15 years of civil­ian rule were a sharp contrast to the under development of the country which was the hallmark of decades of military rule.

Jang noted that no Nigerian would like to experience a re­turn to military rule even as he urged the military to ignore the call.

“We call on all Nige­rians to resist every at­tempt to denigrate ci­vilian rule, but instead, do a personal evalua­tion and will find that civilian rule has been of immense benefit to all, even though we still have a long way to go owing to the many years of zero invest­ment in basic infra­structure”, Jang said in the statement.

However, he com­mended military per­sonnel for their sacri­fice in the fight against terrorism and urged them to remain fo­cused and committed to their primary role of defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria.