The Northern Elders Forum has said that President Muhammadu Buhari must step up his leadership of Nigeria, by thinking outside the box to the unprecedented challenges facing the country.
A spokesman to the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed stated this on Friday on a Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily which was monitored by Africa Today News.
‘This is a country that is facing unprecedented levels of insecurity from all angles and we don’t see any sign that they are doing anything different from what they have done in the last 3, 4, or 5 years’, Baba Ahmed said.
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‘You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect to get different results,’ he added.
He urged Buhari to do more to secure the lives and property of citizens, other than continue blaming everyone else for the woes befalling Nigeria.
He said it is clear that the government is not doing enough and that is why the results have been felt negatively across the nation.
Baba-Ahmed said it is tiring to hear the presidency continue to ascribe the complaints of Nigerians to the machinations of the opposition.
‘We can’t have a president that is just sitting there and then blaming everybody else for the woes of the country, that is not what we elected him for.’
‘If every time Nigerians complain about being marginalized, we (the presidency) don’t want to hear this and you dismiss it as this is just the opposition, then these problems will grow. Because even if it is the opposition, it is your job to deal with the opposition’. He concluded.
Many Nigerians in recent times have voiced their frustration with the APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari over its inability to solve the issues of insecurity bedevilling the country.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK