BEVERLY HILLS, June 03, (THEWILL) – A former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Alhaji Abdurrahman Sumaila, says right-thinking Nigerians would not endanger their lives to support the candidature of any South-East politician vying to be President in 2023.
He also said that those responsible for the rising security challenges in the South-Eastern part of the country wanted to unleash anarchy in Nigeria.
Sumaila stated this on Thursday in a statement he issued to news men in Kano.
He said, “With these atrocities committed by the South-East people on record, how can Nigerians entrust them to govern us? I am sure not a single right-thinking Nigerian will endanger his life to support the candidature of any South-East politician contesting for presidency come 2023 general elections.”
He said evidently the goal of the assaults was to destabilise the country, noting that, “the perpetrators of the attacks must understand that if the country is destabilized, nobody, including the culprits, will be able to leave.”
As a result, he encouraged elders in the South-East to openly condemn the continued attacks by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) or risk being accused of complicity in the heinous crime.
According to the ex-Presidential Adviser, Nigerians would regard the Southern elite as complicit in the armed militia attacks in the region unless they clarified their position.
“The elite in the South-East should borrow a leaf from their northern counterparts such as Arewa Consultative Forum and Northern Elders Forum, who have been persistently condemning the activities of Boko Haram fighters and bandits in the North,” he said.
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