By Efio-Ita Nyok|27 July 2015|5:25am
In view of the on going debate incited by the statement credited to President Buhari while fielding questions from from the audience in his recent visit to the US and where he said was understood to have said that:
“I hope you have a copy of the
election results. Literally constituencies, for example, that gave me 97 per cent, cannot in all honesty be treated, on some
issues, [the same way as] some
constituencies that gave me five per cent. I think these are political realities. While certainly there will be justice for everybody; everybody will enjoy their constitutional rights, where the party in constituencies that by either sheer hard
work made sure they got their people [to vote] and ensure their votes count, they must feel that the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place. I think this is
really fair”.
“I hope you have a copy of the
election results. Literally constituencies, for example, that gave me 97 per cent, cannot in all honesty be treated, on some
issues, [the same way as] some
constituencies that gave me five per cent. I think these are political realities. While certainly there will be justice for everybody; everybody will enjoy their constitutional rights, where the party in constituencies that by either sheer hard
work made sure they got their people [to vote] and ensure their votes count, they must feel that the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place. I think this is
really fair”.
Nigerians of all works of life, class, ethnicity, age and political persuasion, etc have been seen to be debating in defence or otherwise of the above statement by Buhari.
Usually, some of these debates where seen to be expressed via social media. Accordingly, Rt. Hon. Orok Duke, a former member of CRSHA and two-time Deputy Speaker of the same House was seen to bare his mind also on the subject.
Below is his opinion as it appears on his social media account:
