SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) – Despite the disappointment expressed in certain quarters over today’s address to Nigerians by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has applauded the President for the speech, which he described as the roar of a Lion.
In a post on his Facebook page on Monday, the lawmaker asserted that the President spoke his mind in the early morning broadcast which came two days after Buhari returned from a 103-day medical vacation in London.
The President, who opened his speech with gratitude to his fellow citizens, went on to state that the unity of the country would not be open to any negotiation adding that political mischief makers who were fuelling ethnic violence would be dealt with.
Barely two hours after the televised speech, former Education minister and Chibok girls campaigner, Oby Ezekwesili told Buhari that Nigerians believe he terribly missed an opportunity provided by the address to citizens.
But Sani described the President’s speech as a Lion’s roar meant to wake up a slumbering nation dangerously forgetting the lessons of its history and the calling of its future.
He wrote, “The Lion has roared The President spoke the mind of Nigerians who cherish our unity, peace and collective progress.
“He spoke as a Nationalist and he spoke my mind a hundred percent. He sent a clear message to terrorists, ethnic irredentists, secessionists, and champions of sectionalism that this union is an indissoluble matrimony in all circumstances.
“The President’s speech was a Lion’s roar meant to reaffirm and reinforce the unity of a nation showing signs of disintegration during his absence.
“The President speech was a Lion’s roar re-establishing full control of a staggering Clime heading to an engineered implosion during his absence.
“The President speech was a Lion’s roar meant to wake up a slumbering nation dangerously forgetting the lessons of its history and the calling of its future.The president speech was a Lion’s roar meant to extinguish the Soviet/Yugoslavia Inferno stoking in our country.
“During the President’s absence, our hard-earned trophy of peace and plaque of unity were gathering dust and gradually being eaten by ants and bugs, the Lion roared to clear them.
“Our dreams and vision for a better country can be achieved without the need to subscribe to disorder or surrender to it. The roaring Lion may have disappointed “Biafranistas” and “Restructunistas” and “Evictionistas” but it’s pleasing to “Nationalistas”.
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