afrol News, 29 June - The Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi, has continued to push the agenda for the creation of a single government in Africa.

Qaddafi repeated the message in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire where he met President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillame Soro. He was on his final of tour West African countries ahead of the African Union Summit in Ghana.

He said time is ripe for Africa to create sole government, one army of two million soldiers, one currency, one passport and one identity.

Qaddafi led a coup that overthrew King Idris I from power on 1 September 1969. The 27-year-old captain Qaddafi became the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Qaddafi instituted Jamahiriya (state of the masses) 12 years later. He gave up all formal posts in the administration in 1979 but remained Libya’s supreme leader.

He had changed the country’s name from I and proclaimed Libya an Arab republic. seized power through a coup d’etat on 1 September 1969. He had been in power since then.

The Libyan leader also preached the need for Africans to unite, cease wars and conflicts and break colonial yokes or divisions, which have over the years compromised the continent’s development agenda.

He said Africa belongs to Africans and that “we must not allow the western powers to loot our resources.”

Few years back, Col. Qaddafi was among the leaders instrumental in the creation of the African Union, a replacement of the Organisation of African Unity. But Gaddafi was not satisfied that after four years of the creation of the AU little or nothing has been changed in Africa.

Qaddafi is set to confront his colleagues to stop buying time over the creation of the “United States of Africa” at the AU Summit in Ghana. He has been blowing the trumpet.

“Accra must hear this message, it is now left to the African people to decide,” he said.

The call for a single government in Africa is expected to be the cream of the AU Summit. Ahead of the Summit, representatives of civil societies and non-governmental organisations in Africa held series of meetings geared towards preparing the stage for the unity government.

But some analysts believe that the continent is not yet mature enough to have a unity government, especially at a time when Africa limps with so many obstacles.

By staff writer

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