Stop running to Buhari over insecurity – Senate leader, Abdullahi tells Governors

Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi has told Governors in the country to seek ways to address insecurity in their respective states rather than always running to the president for solutions.

Speaking with reporters in Abuja on Monday February 8, Abdullahi expressed worry that the herdsmen/farmers’ crises, banditry and insurgency have remained unsolved.

“These are issues that should be resolved at the local level either through dialogue anchored on the spirit of give and take. Whatever crises that are involved should be resolved by political leaders at appropriate levels be it, at the National Assembly, at the level of the governors, local government and even councillorship level where state actors are expected to sit down with their people so that a lot of these issues can be articulated and addressed by the local population.

“In fact, this is what the governors at their levels should do and not always running to the presidency to solve one dispute here and there. This is a federation and we’re all politically responsible leaders. I can assure you that in no distant time, these inter-communal conflagrations would be resolved.

“These are kind of crises that must be addressed promptly and squarely in preventing ethnic entrepreneurs from hijacking the whole situation and putting the country in danger.There are existential issues that have set communities that have hitherto lived together peacefully, against each other either for political advantage or political matters, he said