He said no amount of insecurity in the South East will stop the South East from taking its turn at the Presidency.
The lawmaker noted that the crises in other parts of the country had never stopped them from producing the country’s president.
“It is the turn of the South East to produce the next president, nobody is contesting that. No tribe should hide under the guise of insecurity to deny the South East their right.
“There has been war in other parts of the country, it never stopped them. So, this cannot be an excuse to deny us from producing the president of the country,” he said.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has no agenda to end Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.
HURIWA made the remark while accusing Buhari of betraying his constitutional oath over his stance on Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Planning.
The frontline rights advocacy group was reacting to claims by former Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Dennis Amachree that Buhari neglected intelligence on the affiliation of Pantami to Taliban and Al-Qaeda before naming him into his cabinet.
HURIWA stated this in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf.
• Group says initiative lacks legal backing
Disturbed by worsening insecurity in the region, the Southeast Governor’s Forum recently endorsed Ebube agu as an alternative security outfit.
However, barely 24 hours after the endorsement, the International Society for Civil and Rule of Law, has faulted the belated floating of the outfit, describing it as suspicious and inoperable.
Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the group, Emeka Umeagbalasi said the panicky and hurried announcement of the new security outfit by the Southeast Governors’ Forum was discomforting, noting that the establishment of Ebube agu came at a time “when all hopes have been lost from state actor angles, forcing most citizens of the region to place their hopes, expectations and solutions in non-state actors.”
Insists on sacking Pantami over link with Al-Queada, Taliban
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may be designated a sympathiser of Al-Queada and Taliban should he refuse to dismiss his Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami.
“It is in the self-enlightened interest of the administration of President Buhari to clear its image of the suspicions that it is a sympathiser of international terrorism by sacking Pantami who had admitted espousing the teachings of Al- Queada and Taliban previously,” HURIWA said in a statement yesterday.
In the statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA insisted that President Buhari should dismiss Pantami due to his affinity and endorsement of global Jihadist movement.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has said the nation is currently at the mercy of kidnappers and other criminal elements disturbing the peace of the country.
HURIWA stated this in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST on Wednesday while reacting to the recent abduction of students from the Greenfield University Kaduna.
DAILY POST had reported that gunmen suspected to be bandits, invaded the university premises on Tuesday night and whisked away scores of students to unknown destination.
Reacting, HURIWA blamed President Muhammadu Buhari and the government of Kaduna State for playing politics with the nation’s security situation.