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Buhari, Lawan meet over insecurity, APC crisis

 

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resident of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to frontally address the security situation in the country, especially in the north.

 

 

Briefing newsmen after the closed door meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Lawan, who warned the service chiefs to either perform of get sacked, also disclosed that he discussed the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with Buhari

 

 

Asked what he discussed with the president, Lawan said: “You know the country is facing very deep and serious security challenges and I have come to discussed with Mr. President what we discussed previously that we should do whatever it takes to improve the security situation in the country. And we believe that the Senate and indeed the National Assembly, is positively disposed to receiving even supplementary budget purposely to address the fundamental needs of the security agencies of our country. So that we’ll able to empower them, enable them to fight the Boko Haram in the North-East, banditry and other security challenges across the country.

 

 

“Section 14 sub-section 2b of the constitution of the Federal Republic Nigeria is very categorical and crystal clear, that the purpose of government shall be to provide security and welfare of the people.

“Therefore, we must, we have no luxury of any option other than to address the security challenges more than any other thing.

 

 

“I think we must tell ourselves the truth, that the security situation in the country, especially in the northern part of the country, require that we give much more resources to the security agencies. And those who are heading these agencies, especially the service chiefs, must sit up. In fact, we must have milestones and timelines on how we are going to deal with this, we can’t just go on without any time frame for dealing with these issues.”

 

 

He continued: “If after we provide some support and someone is found short of expectations, he should be shown the way out if he refuses to go. Because the lives of Nigerians are so precious and therefore must be more important than any other considerations or sentiments. I believe that today, the most essential thing in government is to address the security challenges.

 

 

“But I also had the opportunity to talk to my president and my leader about the challenges in the APC. I believe that we have to deal with these challenges. This is the ruling party of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the president, with the control of the National Assembly, with more governors than any other political party. The situation should not, must not be allowed to degenerate further than it has. And I believe that we must go into the constitution of our party and see how we are to address this, but we must not allow this to continue. As it is today, because the stability of APC is the stability of Nigeria; this is the party that is running the affairs of this country. So, I believe that we have to sort this out and that will make our work even better and easier when we have a stable party.

 

 

“Because the party is supposed to be part of the apparatus of running government, we are supposed to run or operate or implement or execute the manifesto of the party. Therefore the party is so key, so central, so essential to ensuring that government, whether on the executive or legislative side, continues to face those issues in the manifesto and of course the manifesto will be to make Nigeria better.

 

 

“So, I had the opportunity to discuss that with the president who is the leader of the party in Nigeria and by the grace of God in the next few days, we will see certain actions will be taken and we are praying that all our leaders in the party across the country will make every possible effort to get the party reconciled.”

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