SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, (THEWILL) – The Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), led by a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has flayed President Muhammadu Buhari for campaigning in different parts of the country despite the killings ravaging some states in the country.
THEWILL recalls that the President has
indicated his intention to seek reelection in 2019 and has began visiting states to seek support while there is bloodletting in some states like Benue, Zamfara, Plateau, Kogi, Borno and others.
However, the CNM, in a statement by its spokesman, Akin Osuntokun, said Buhari’s visit to Bauchi State to campaign less than 24 hours after several persons were slaughtered in Benue State was the height of insensitivity.
“This tragedy was casually reinforced by the decision of President Buhari to proceed on a campaign tour to Bauchi in careless and insensitive disregard of the intensifying Benue calamity,” the group stated.
“This peculiar attitude has become all too familiar and characteristic of President Buhari.
“Something of the unfolding national calamity can still be salvaged in the unlikely event that the President sees fit to mend his ways going forward. Were the President to continue to prioritise his re-election bid over the security and well-being of Nigerians, he would be putting the corporate existence of the country at risk.”
