SEN SANI TO BUHARI: Stop govs’ sycophantic visits to Villa leaving their people for gunmen to kill

An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the new trend of governors always paying him visits.

He described the outings as “sycophantic political ritual”, where state governors abandon their duty post and people for gunmen to kill all in the name of visiting Presidential Villa.

The senator was apparently reacting to the recent event where Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari was said to have travelled on a visit to Buhari during the Wednesday and Thursday mass killings of innocent persons in his state by gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers.

The outspoken senator wrote on his twitter handle, “The President must put a stop to the new sycophantic political ritual where governors abandon their duty post, traveling all the way on a daily basis to climb the Rock of Aso in order to pledge or renew their loyalty.They leave behind a moribund deputy and a people at the mercy of gunmen.”

In another tweet, clearly in response to this weekend’s bombing in Borno State that left 22 dead and 48 wounded, Senator Sani said, “Whenever an official statement is made that the insurgents have been defeated, people in the affected towns and villages are supposed to be happy but they instead become scared; because the insurgents will always like to show that they are not defeated.”

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The attack came just as the Nigerian Army had only recently claimed that the Boko Haram terrorists group had been totally defeated.

It had added that the sect leader, Abaubakar Shekau, was on the run and placed a N3 million bounty on any one with information on the fleeing terrorist leader, who according to the Army now disguises in a women attires.

 

 

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