President Buhari won’t resign over insecurity – Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture,
has said that President Buhari will not be resigning from office over the
insecurity challenges in the country.
The Minister stated this during a press conference in Abuja
today Thursday February 20th. According to the Minister, it is clear that the
country is currently facing serious security challenges but asking the
President to resign because of this is uncalled for. He added that the
president has the overwhelming support of Nigerians to complete his tenure in
2023.
“As I said
earlier, the country is facing security challenges, and the challenges are
being tackled headlong. However, there have been some red herrings in recent
times, including those calling for the resignation of Mr. President or the sack
of the security chiefs. I just want to say that the government, which has
provided and continues to provide the military and the security agencies with
the wherewithal, believes in their ability to tackle insecurity.
These challenges
will be successfully tackled. I will however advise all commentators,
especially political and religious leaders, to be very careful at this time not
to aggravate the situation with incendiary comments, comments that cash in on
our religious, ethnic and political fault lines to further divide us.
The kind of
comments that have been attributed to some leaders, especially religious
leaders, are incendiary and reckless. Leaders should be part of solutions
toproblems, rather than aggravating situations.
To those asking
Mr. President to resign, I wish to say this: Mr. President will not resign. He
has the overwhelming mandate of Nigerians to preside over the affairs of the
country till the expiration of his tenure in May 2023'' he said
Members of the opposition party, PDP, have on several
occasion, called for the resignation of President Buhari following the
increasing rate of killings in the country.
On January 29th this year, the Senate Minority leader,
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, during plenary, called for the resignation of
President Buhari following the escalating security challenges in all parts of
the country.
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