The Northern Elders Forum on Wednesday asked the President, Muhammadu Buhari, to resign.
According to the group, the President has failed in the two
critical areas of security and economy and as such has ‘nothing new to offer’
Nigerians.
NEF Spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, stated this tonight on
Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
He said it is disappointing that after over five years of
being in office, Buhari still hasn’t delivered on the promises he made to
Nigerians when he was first elected in 2015.
Baba-Ahmed noted that Buhari had asked his predecessor,
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, to resign in 2013 over growing insecurity in
the country and so, it is not out of place to demand that he resigns over the
same security challenge.
He said, “We will continue to ask that he (Buhari) resigns. He is a democratically elected president. We wish he is doing better but he is not. Ordinarily, under a democratic system, a leader is supposed to deliver, he is supposed to do two things – he is supposed to secure citizens and he is supposed to facilitate their economic welfare. He (Buhari) hasn’t done the first and he is not doing the second. So, explain to me on what basis President Buhari should continue to be our president?
“However, it is his right to continue to be the president
even if Nigerians are unhappy and unsatisfied with what he is doing, that is
his right but we will not keep quiet; we will continue to speak up that he has
failed Nigerians, he is failing Nigerians and under a democratic setting, we
have to raise our voices and say, ‘Mr President, you are just not good enough
for this country’. That is just the simple truth.
“We have respected the President, we understand the
difficulty he is facing and we understand how difficult it is to tell him to
resign but we also have the democratic right to tell him, ‘Sorry sir, you
cannot run this country, you have been given five, six years to do so and the
situation is just getting worse and we believe that you have nothing new to
offer and the only way is for you to resign’. We believe we are speaking for
millions of Nigerians.”
Earlier, the northern elders said life has lost its value
under the Buhari regime while condemning Saturday killing of at least 43 rice
farmers by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State.
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