Name Those Plotting to Overthrow Buhari, Northern Elders Tell Presidency

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has urged the Presidency to name
those allegedly plotting to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari
and stop petrifying Nigerians with insurrection by claiming an
alleged plot to sack Buhari on a regular basis.

In a statement released yesterday by the Director of Publicity
and Advocacy of the Forum, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the body wondered
what Nigerians should do with such information from the
Presidency.

Ahmed urged the presidency to name the conspirators who
allegedly recruited certain leaders of suspected ethnic groups and
ethnic groups, and urged the current administration to investigate
the country’s problems as it shows they have a mechanism to remedy
to the situation.

He said; “Subversion is a crime, sedition is a crime and treason
is a crime. Why is the Presidency or DSS telling us that there are
people who are involved in these activities? What do they want the
public to do with the information?

“They are failing twice; first of all, they are failing to
eliminate the ground which gives these kinds of elements if they do
exist, the reason to do what they are doing and then they are
failing in enforcing the law.

“I can say we talk with other groups, we discuss national
issues. That is our right; there is nothing illegal in that and I
am sure other groups do the same thing.

“But when you throw this kind of blanket accusations that
somebody that you haven’t told us, someone, that you are in
opposition today with, you haven’t dealt with is engaging and
recruiting sociocultural groups, you have to wonder are you just
using words to scare citizens?” he queried.

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has urged the Presidency to name
those allegedly plotting to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari
and stop petrifying Nigerians with insurrection by claiming an
alleged plot to sack Buhari on a regular basis.

In a statement released yesterday by the Director of Publicity
and Advocacy of the Forum, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the body wondered
what Nigerians should do with such information from the
Presidency.

Ahmed urged the presidency to name the conspirators who
allegedly recruited certain leaders of suspected ethnic groups and
ethnic groups, and urged the current administration to investigate
the country’s problems as it shows they have a mechanism to remedy
to the situation.

He said; “Subversion is a crime, sedition is a crime and treason
is a crime. Why is the Presidency or DSS telling us that there are
people who are involved in these activities? What do they want the
public to do with the information?

“They are failing twice; first of all, they are failing to
eliminate the ground which gives these kinds of elements if they do
exist, the reason to do what they are doing and then they are
failing in enforcing the law.

“I can say we talk with other groups, we discuss national
issues. That is our right; there is nothing illegal in that and I
am sure other groups do the same thing.

“But when you throw this kind of blanket accusations that
somebody that you haven’t told us, someone, that you are in
opposition today with, you haven’t dealt with is engaging and
recruiting sociocultural groups, you have to wonder are you just
using words to scare citizens?” he queried.