President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to the Northern Elders Forum’s (NEF) request for him to resign owing to Nigeria’s insecurity.
Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesperson, said the president does not want to be pulled into the media circus.
In a democracy, “publicity is the oxygen for politicians who have failed to connect with citizens,” according to a statement released Wednesday night.
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Shehu stated that the resignation request “is not a solution to the country’s security challenges,” stressing that the situation has deteriorated to a dangerous level as a result of decades of neglect.
“It is advantageous to everyone that politicians come to grips with the idea that it is useful to all that they work to maintain the state so that when it is their turn, they will have a place to manage,” the aide said, urging voters to know what their government is doing to cope with the crisis.
The presidency stated, “People don’t have to trash what is already there in a frantic bid for power.”
Shehu told the public that security services have repositioned and restructured current operations in Kaduna and Niger States in reaction to the assaults.
Structures are being strengthened with land-based assets to improve troop efficiency, and intelligence is also being enhanced, he added.
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“The air defence system is being reinforced with newly-acquired jets and drones which assemblage and training for operators have been hastened to meet the current exigencies.
“The country is equally getting assurances of early delivery of equipment on order from manufacturers and the effort is ongoing to conclude other major procurements still in process.
“Only this morning, the government at a meeting of the cabinet approved the procurement of the largest ever single procurement of military vehicles.
“Similar major operations are going in the South-East and the South-South where the economic life wire of the nation and electricity transmission lines are currently being secured from saboteurs.”
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The presidency accused “sponsored saboteurs” of aiming to show that the government cannot provide power by sabotaging equipment at switches and other vital points.
“They will not succeed. The public knows who is who, and who has done what in our country’s governance”, the statement added.
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