President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki,
‘Supporters of Buhari’s re-election selfish, sadists’—Obiekwe; Nigeria unsafe, says Saraki
An Igbo socio-cultural group in Abuja, Nigeria, Igbo Gburu Gburu, has said that individuals and groups who are supporting re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 are only interested in personal gains and not the larger interest of the Nigerian people.
Cattle-breeders association, Miyetti Allah, has said that the Saturday attack in Jos where over 120 persons have been reported killed and about 50 homes razed down was a retaliation for loss of 300 cows.
In a statement on Monday by its President, Comrade Emma Obiekwe, Igbo Gburu Gburu decried what it called ‘heightening insecurity and economic hardship’ in the country and challenged Buhari’s supporters to shun ‘selfish politicking’ and be fair to Nigerians.
Meanwhile, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to direct his security chiefs to immediately produce quick-response measures aimed at tackling the spate of killings in Nigeria.
Saraki, while responding to the killings in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area in which scores of people were murdered in attacks on some villages, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja on Sunday night.
He stated that it was important for Nigerians to start having the assurances that the government was “decisively responding to the current threat to lives and properties in parts of the country.”
Saraki said, “I am very sad to hear the news of the incident in Plateau State. This is very depressing and giving the impression that the country is not safe. The problem of Boko Haram in the North-East is well known to everybody, but this killing by unknown band of assailants in Benue, Taraba, Plateau and Kaduna states is now giving another dimension to the crisis.
“Coming at the time we are getting ready for elections, we need to respond fast. If the plan is to develop some long-term measures, we also request that the President should mandate the security chiefs to put forward an immediate short-term and quick-response measure which will restore confidence in the system and demonstrate to the criminals behind these killings the capacity of government to tackle the issue.
“We have to immediately device a plan through which the criminals behind the killings and their sponsors can be nabbed and made to face the wrath of the law. We have to also develop plans to mop up illegal fire arms in the hands of dangerous elements while also stopping the influx of these arms into the country.”
Obiekwe in the statement said: “We cannot imagine where Nigeria will be in the next four years if Buhari is re-elected. This government has shown lack of capacity to protect lives and property which are at the foundation of the responsibilities of every government to its people. The economy too is in tatters. Despite the huge amount of money that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injects into the economy from time to time, the economy remains deflated because the economic policies of this government are not viable.
“It is very unfortunate that the very few individuals who feel that they are insulated from the general troubles of the Nigerian people are campaigning for Buhar’s re-election. Those people are myopic, selfish and sadists. We challenge them to be fair to the larger proportion of Nigerians who wriggle in pains of unwarranted death of their loved ones on account of the religious creed they profess or the tribe they belong to.
“As law abiding people, we urge Nigerians to observe all their roles and responsibilities to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari until his terms expires in May 2019. But Nigerians should not make mistake of renewing his mandate”, Obiekwe said.
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