Nothing must happen to President Buhari – ACUF warns
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| Nigeria's President |
The
Arewa Community United Foundation has warned those threatening national
violence against the country that nothing unwholesome must happen to
President Muhammadu Buhari in the discharge of his duties as the
President of the country.
It said although it is normal for the opposition party in the country
to demand for unrealizable targets and express their opinions; the
President should not be impeded from performing his duties and
functions.
The State Secretary, Alhaji Musa Saleh, made this known in Lagos,
Friday at the yearly national prayer and 50th year remembrance of the
Late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, killed in the first military
coup d’état witnessed in the country on January 15,1966.
Saleh said although they were gathered to pray and remember the
legacies left behind by their leaders before they were cut-off, “we have
to say now that we don’t want such event to happen to our leaders
anymore.
Today we have President Muhammadu Buhari on seat, for those who
are threatening national violence against the state, we warn them that
nothing must happen to Buhari, he’s there, he has been elected by
popular majority vote and he’s carrying out the administration of this
country in the way to rebuild the country for greater posterity. So we
are warning that nothing should happen to him but we all should support
him to achieve the desired goal for the country.”
He
said for Nigeria to develop, national unity should be encouraged and
segregation discouraged, noting it as the fastest path to greatness.
The South West leader of the Arewa Community, Architect Ahmed Kabiru
Abdullahi, said the death of the late Sardauna was not only the worst
thing to happen to Northern Nigeria but also the worst thing to happen
to the country as a whole.
Abdullahi said late Sir Ahmadu Bello’s demise with others, marked the
beginning of problems of under-development of the country and he
believes that the administration of President Buhari is toeing the same
line of development started by the late Sardauna, and Sir Abubakar
Tafawa Balewa, by holding unto Nigeria as one without letting go of his
constituency, the Northern region.
On
how successive Northern leaders have not been able to emulate the
success of the late Ahmadu Bello in developing the North, he said “Every
leader has tried, but it is possible at a time not to have people who
can build up on your legacy as those who came after late Ahmadu Bello,
yet they made their own impacts, but they have not been able to match up
to the big shoes and it is our hope that President Buhari should be
able to match up. It is our hope and we are confident that Buhari will
match up.”
Speaking on the agitation for break-up of Nigeria by the East, he
asked “did they put it together, can you break what you did not put
together, that’s injustice. They are working against themselves. They
should change and let Nigeria be because I know Nigeria will be with or
without them. Nigeria has come to stay. The Giant of Africa has come to
stay.”
