Presidency says Northern elders, others selfish, shedding crocodile tears

The Presidency on Friday came down hard on some leaders who recently faulted the way President Muhamamdu Buhari is handling the nation’s security challenges, describing them as selfish leaders.

Leaders of some socio-cultural organisations led by the Northern Elders Forum, had issued a communiqué accusing Buhari’s administration of incompetence in handling the security situation in the country.

But the Presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said it considered the communiqué “as the shedding of crocodile tears by selfish leaders.”

Shehu claimed that the leaders felt alienated after a transparent and accountable system “halted their disproportionate survival on resources of the state.”

Expose politicians behind killings; Lamido tells Buhari

A Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose the politicians behind the incessant killings in some parts of the country.

Speaking during an interview with journalists, in Kano, yesterday, Lamido charged Buhari to go ahead and arrest such politicians and save the country from further tragedy and pains.

He was responding to claims by the Presidency that it has a list of the names of politicians behind the killings of innocent Nigerians. 

The former governor of Jigawa State said: “President Buhari said he knows the politicians, who are sponsoring these killings.

“Now, have they been arrested? Who are they? Name them. People are dying every day, and he knows the killers and they have not been arrested. You press men, please ask him (Buhari) who they are; he should arrest them.”