A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Olisa Agbakoba, has called on statesmen to serve as watchdogs who will ensure that politician create a national order for the country.
Speaking in his office today in Lagos, Agbakoba noted that statesmen are needed to offer pathways for restructuring and re-engineering the affairs of the country.
“The big issue in 2015 is not electricity or corruption but the creation of a national order. Our basis is that although the problems of corruption, electricity and job creation are important issues, they can only be resolved in the context of an Order, ”He noted.
According to Agbakoba, the 2015 election is an avenue for change, and a moment to ensure that the country is better run.
“2015, presents another opportunity for doing something different. Doing nothing is no longer an option because the state risks the peace of vast graveyards.”
“Action has to lead to the institutionalization of the peace of reasoned redesign we call a National order,” he explained.
“This national order with multiplicity has its starting point, the capacity to confront our multi-ethnicity, diversity and conflicting worldviews as never before”.
Meanwhile, Agbakoba whilst, appraising the two major political parties and the options they have to offer Nigerians observed that the two presidential candidates of the two parties are yet to inform the society of what their aims and objectives for the growth of the nation is.
Though he praised a system which has ensured that the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) gives a stiff challenge to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), he lamented the inability of both parties to succinctly explain how they intend to propagate national development.
“If All Progressive Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are not addressing how they intend to fight Nigerian’s diversity then I think this is a major failure. We will simply have an election cycle that will be a repeat of what has always happened in the past,” he said.
“The very challenge we have is a weak political class, I have no doubt that the postponement of the election have made INEC more ready. We are going to have logistical challenges in this coming election because we do not have the where withal. We are all focused on the election which is the wrong approach, what will happen on June 1st after the election,” he asked.