PRESIDENCY BLAMES COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AIDING VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA

The Presidential Aide in the statement argued that Buhari administration has done a lot to improve the security in the North-East, declaring that, Buhari was not to blame for the ethnic and religious violence that has claimed the lives of hundreds of people in many States in Nigeria including Adamawa, Taraba, Benue and Kaduna, rather community leaders are to be blame for the violence.

“Sadly, one of the realities of today’s Nigeria is that it easy to blame President Buhari for the violence all around us. Community leaders are too scared to blame the warlords and the sponsors of killings we live with because they fear for their own lives’, he stated.

“What is happening in several communities racked by inter-ethnic and religious violence is arising from the refusal of community leaders to point at known criminals in their midst for the law enforcement agencies to act against them. They rather blame President Buhari for their woes.”

Penpushing recalled that, the Bishop had allegedly accused Buhari of “sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief”, while in similar manner many Nigerians have been criticizing Buhari administration for the insecurity across the country

‘There is so much that has changed in the past three to four years in and around Yola, and the Catholic Church in particular that a true assessment would show that but for the Change Administration of President Buhari, things would have continued the way they were, or even get worse. These could not have happened if a Commander-in- Chief was asleep’ the Presidency emphasised.

‘Now that Boko Haram has been degraded, the more than 400,000 displaced people absorbed by the Adamawa community have all gone back to Borno State and to those council areas in Northern Adamawa’, the statement pointed out.

‘In addition to the Capital, Yola, the towns of Michika, Madagali and Mubi which had been occupied by Boko Haram during their Military advances have since been retaken by the Nigerian Military, whose personnel are also clearing litters of Boko Haram’s carnage and are, through the support of the administration as well as local and international partners, rebuilding roads and bridges, power lines, burnt schools, markets, destroyed churches and mosques’.

‘Without an iota of doubt, the Northeast is better off with President Buhari than it was under the previous administration. That should explain the massive turnout of voters in the region, in spite of threats to life and property, to vote for the return of the President for a Second Term of four years.