Census2023: A Misplacement Of Priority — Colonel Umar

 

A former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, has described the decision of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration to conduct a census in the country next year as a misplacement of priority and shock.

Umar, the Chairman of the Movement for Unity and Progress, made the position known in a statement he issued on Thursday.

The Eagle Online recalls that the Council of State on Thursday at a meeting at the Presidential Villa accepted the proposal by President Muhammadu Buhari for the conduct of the census next year.

But in the statement, Umar said with the prevailing situation of things in the country, conducting a census should not be the priority.

 

He said on behalf of the Movement for Unity and Progress: “The decision of the FGN to seek and gotten the approval of the  National Council of State to conduct National census in April 2023 must have come as a great shock to most well meaning Nigerians.

 

“A country that is facing existential challenges such as unprecedented level of insecurity, collapsing economy cannot have as one of its priorities the conduct of a National census.

“We therefore urge the Buhari administration to suspend what will amount to misadventure and waste of scarce national resources.

“This Administration should focus all its attention on securing the nation and conducting the 2023 elections.

“A National census at this point is certainly not a priority assuming that its conduct is possible.”