GENERAL Overseer of Bible Life
Church, Ajegunle, Lagos, Bishop Leonard Umanna recently celebrated his 61st
birthday anniversary at a special service organised by his congregation at the
church. At the end of the event, the cleric found time to speak with
journalists on the state of the nation. Excerpts….
How would you describe the state of
the nation since the new government took over the reins of power on May 29?
I said it that neither Goodluck
Jonathan nor Muhammadu Buhari is Nigeria’s political saviour. No one person can
save Nigeria the way things are now. I have not seen Buhari in the picture yet.
It means it is the party, APC that is still in control, not Buhari.
Bishop Leonard Umunna
Over a month he has not picked his
cabinet. As things are now, PDP looked more organised in power than APC. I have
been saying that Nigerians have not really given themselves a workable
constitution. Although they say, ‘we the people of Nigeria give ourselves a
constitution’, it is not true.
There was no referendum leading up
to drawing the constitution that every citizen agrees to. Some people say that
Nigeria, like an aeroplane, really took off successfully in the morning of
Independence in 1960; but force-landed during the civil war and has not been
able to take off again ever since. I wish Nigeria vibrates a more favourable
number, but it vibrates a number that has made its leadership to continuously
experience turmoil. The country will always experience back and forth
movements.
