It Is Not Buhari That Will Provide Security For You – Senate Tells Governors

Senate Majority Leader Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi
The Nigerian Senate has asked Governors to stop running to President Buhari over insecurity issues, saying he is not the one to provide that for them.
The Senate Majority Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, said this on Monday while addressing reporters in Abuja, noting that the Senate was disturbed that herdsmen/farmers’ crises, banditry and insurgency remain unabated.It Is Not Buhari That Will Provide Security For You - Senate Tells Governors
Challenging the has 36 state governors to sit down with their people and address security challenges rather than always run to the Presidency for solutions, Abdullahi said the country runs a Federation system and at such, everyone is politically responsible.
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“These are issues that should be resolved at the local level either through dialogue anchored on the spirit of give and take. Whatever crises that are involved should be resolved by political leaders at appropriate levels be it, at the National Assembly, at the level of the governors, local government and even councillorship level where state actors are expected to sit down with their people so that a lot of these issues can be articulated and addressed by the local population.21 Dead As Bandits Attack Zamfara, Katsina
“In fact, this is what the governors at their levels should do and not always running to the presidency to solve one dispute here and there. This is a federation and we’re all politically responsible leaders. I can assure you that in no distant time, these inter-communal conflagrations would be resolved.”
“These are kind of crises that must be addressed promptly and squarely in preventing ethnic entrepreneurs from hijacking the whole situation and putting the country in danger. There are existential issues that have set communities that have hitherto lived together peacefully, against each other either for political advantage or political matters”, he said.
Senate Majority Leader Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi
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