I ll Pull My People Out Of Natl Confrence If Provoked..Lamido Adamawa

A delegate and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Aliyu Lamido has threatened to stage a boycott of the conference by his people.

The Lamido hinged the threat on what he perceived as moves to impose  a practice, ostensibly the two-thirds simple majority  of  the “so-called Western world” on the country through the conference.

He accused some “so-called elder statesmen’ and close allies of the president of the country of being the mastermind of the plot.
“I want to sound a note of warning. My warning is that we should not take a cue from the so-called Western world because they are always protecting their selfish  interest.

“When the president came to inaugurate this conference, he delivered an address and in that address, he specified what he wanted us to do and what he advised us not to do. In the address, he specifically mentioned that pattern of vote {would be} either by consensus or 75 per cent.

“It is there in the speech and the so-called elder statesmen, who can lay down their lives for the interest of the president, are the same people who are contradicting the president at this conference, introducing something which the president didn’t say in his address, that is the two-thirds majority.

“So, this is why I said I should make this statement to make people to understand. They call themselves Jonathan’s loyalists. Aren’t they?”

He said while he had a country like Cameroun, where he claimed his kingdom came from, to run to if Nigeria should break up, the people from other sections of the country, allegedly orchestrating trouble, had none to seek refuge.

He said: “Many of them have been shouting their heads off in the media. My kingdom has been in existence hundreds of years before the so-called entity Nigeria and the so-called civilised people from the West were the people who came and divided us and the larger part of my kingdom is there in Cameroun. It is called Adamawa State in Cameroun. If you go to Cameroun, you can verify this.”
The traditional ruler, whose speech was interjected with a show of disapproval by many delegates, apparently did not honour the intervention of Justice Kutigi that he should concentrate on his contribution to the issue of the conference.

He added: “You contradicted what the president said. With the way we are going, if we are not careful, this conference will flop and if the country disintegrates, and may God forbid, many of those shouting their heads off will have nowhere to go, unlike we in Adamawa; our kingdom transcends Nigeria and covers Cameroun.

“There is Adamawa State in Cameroun. If I run to that place, I will be quickly assimilated. So,  I appeal that  we follow the pattern laid down by the president, because if we are pushed to the wall, we will stage a walkout of the conference. Every one is a potential jingo. It is not the monopoly of any individual.”