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Insecurity: Buhari doesn’t have answers, he should resign – Northern elders

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over killings across the country, especially in the North. The elders made the call yesterday in a statement through the Director, Publicity and Advocacy of NEF, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.

The group said: “The administration of President Buhari does not appear to have answers to the challenges of security to which we are exposed. We cannot continue to live and die under the dictates of killers, kidnappers, rapists and sundry criminal groups that have deprived us of our rights to live in peace and security.

“Our Constitution has provisions for leaders to voluntarily step down if they are challenged by personal reasons or they prove incapable of leading.

“It is now time for President Buhari to seriously consider that option, since his leadership has proved spectacularly incapable of providing security for Nigerians. Our Forum is aware of the weight of this advice, and it is also aware that we cannot continue to live under these conditions until 2023 when President Buhari’s term ends,” it said.

NEF said the it made the recommendation with the highest sense of responsibility, and expressed hope there are enough Nigerians who enjoy the confidence of President Buhari to advise him to consider resigning.

This is not the first time the elders are calling on the president to resign as a result of insecurity as they also made the demand on December 1, 2020, after the beheading of over 67 farmers in Zabarmari village, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, declaring that the Federal Government had breached Section 14 (1), which made security and welfare the sole purpose of its existence.

NEF had through Baba-Ahmed stated then that life had lost its value under the present administration due to the absence of political will to fight the Boko Haram insurgency and other threats such as banditry, rustling and kidnapping.

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