President Buhari Vows To Deal With Sponsors of Rivers Violence
Category: Nigerian National News
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday condemned the political violence in
Rivers State, describing it as “primitive, barbaric and unacceptable”.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Femi Adesina, Buhari said: “We will deal decisively with all sponsors of
violence. I have given the security services clear directives in this
regard.
“We will show that violence in any form will no longer be tolerated before, during or after elections.”
The President spoke in Malabo at an interactive meeting with Nigerians resident in Equatorial Guinea.
President Buhari said that the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) will be encouraged to explore the possibility of
Nigerians abroad voting in the 2019 general elections.
Noting that some African countries now allow their citizens resident
abroad to vote in national elections, the President said he empathized
with the desire of Nigerians in the diaspora to vote in national
elections.
He promised to do all within his powers to fulfill that desire.
“I want all Nigerians to know that I respect them and their right to choose their leaders,” he said.
President Buhari also said that establishing a new national airline was not on the Federal Government’s list of priorities.
His administration’s main area of focus is reducing poverty, he said.
The President said that developing the infrastructure needed to boost
production in all sectors of the economy and creating more jobs for
young Nigerians and other actions that will directly improve the living
conditions of ordinary Nigerians will continue to be prioritised by his
administration.
President Buhari was responding to complaints by members of the
Nigerian community about the absence of direct flights between Nigeria
and Equatorial Guinea.
He assured them that his administration’s war against corruption will remain “fearless, relentless and merciless”.
“We will be merciless and relentless in pursuing all those who abused
public trust. Nigerians will see how some of the elite conspired to run
the nation down,” he said.
Rivers APC chiefs have alleged that 32 of their members have so far
been shot, clubbed or beheaded in the run up to Saturday’s election.
The killings started before last year’s general election. A report of
the Rivers Commission of Inquiry headed by the Chairman of the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, said a monthly
average of 19 killings occurred in the state between November 2014 and
April 2015.
The Commission noted that of the 97 allegations of killings it
received, 94 of them occurred between November 15, 2014, and April 11,
last year.
This report, Odinkalu said, reaffirms that no state or country should allow a repeat of such violence in the name of politics.
Reacting to the recent brutal killings, Governor Wike described those
killed as cultists, saying killings were done in the course of clashes
by rival cult members.
He slammed the APC for claiming killed cultists as their members.
The Nation
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