HERDSMEN KILLINGS: It’s in Buhari’s character to be insensitive —Obj Coalition

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo-led group, Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), has regretted that President Muhammadu Buhari could be going round the country campaigning for re-election despite the day to day killing of Nigerians in Benue and other states by herdsmen.

Describing Buhari as being habitually insensitive, CNM said that the president’s visit to Bauchi State for campaigns just about 24 hours after several Nigerians were butchered was the height of insensitivity.

This was contained in a statement CNM spokesperson, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, made available to newsmen on Sunday and entitled “Fiddling while Nigeria is burning.”

The group called on President Buhari to imbibe the habit of putting the security of Nigerians’ ahead of his political ambition.

“Mid last week, the regime of massacres in Benue State attained another height in the invasion of a church where two Catholic priests and indeterminate number of the congregation were butchered.

“This tragedy was casually reinforced by the decision of President Buhari to proceed on a campaign tour to Bauchi in careless and insensitive disregard of the intensifying Benue calamity. This peculiar attitude has become all too familiar and characteristic of President Buhari.

“Something of the unfolding national calamity can still be salvaged in the unlikely event that the President sees fit to mend his ways going forward. Were the President to continue to prioritise his re-election bid over the security and well-being of Nigerians, he would be putting the corporate existence of the country at risk,” the statement read in part.

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CNM then applauded the United States’ Department of State for its recent report accusing Nigeria’s current administration of failing to effectively tackle corruption and human rights abuses.

The group also carpeted Buhari for the saga that surrounded efforts to recall Sen Dino Melaye noting, that the failed process despite the ‘unjust arrest’ of the Kogi West senator was proof that Buhari is running a government similar to totalitarian former President François Duvalier of Haiti.

 

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