Nigerians expecting President Muhammadu Buhari to resign due
to rising insecurity in the nation are joking, as the nation’s Minister of
Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said emphatically on Thursday that the
president will not resign.
He admitted that the nation was currently going through
security challenges, but noted that the challenges were being tackled headlong.
According to him, there had been some red herrings in recent
times, including those calling for the resignation of President Buhari or the
sack of the security chiefs.
“I just want to say that the government, which has provided
and continues to provide the military and the security agencies with the
wherewithal, believes in their ability to tackle insecurity,” he said.
Mohammed stated that these challenges would be successfully
tackled, while advising all commentators, especially political and religious
leaders, to be very careful at this time not to aggravate the situation with
incendiary comments and comments that cashed in on religious, ethnic and
political fault lines to further divide the nation.
He explained that the kind of comments that had been
attributed to some leaders, especially religious leaders, were incendiary and
reckless.
Mohammed said leaders should be part of solutions to
problems, rather than aggravating situations.
“To those asking Mr. President to resign, I wish to say
this: Mr. President will not resign,” he said.
Mohammed said Buhari had the overwhelming mandate of
Nigerians to preside over the affairs of the country till the expiration of his
tenure in May 2023.
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