Ohanaeze condemns presidency’s comparison to Miyeti Allah seeks apology

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Ohanaeze condemns presidency’s comparison to Miyeti Allah seeks apology

 

Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu, has condemned comment by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, that Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, is like the group and Afenifere.

“The Miyetti Allah group is like Ohanaeze and Afenifere. It is a socio-cultural group. There are criminals within the Yoruba race and you cannot say because of that, Afenifere is a group of criminals”, Shehu had stated.

Reacting, Ibegbu noted that Afenifere and Ohanaeze could only be compared to Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, the apex Northern socio-political group.

A statement he signed read in part: “Garba Shehu committed a grave sin by such comparison between peace and pieces. Ohanaeze and Afenifere represent peace and Miyetti Allah represents pieces.

“It is like comparing the Vatican to Afghanistan,” he added, urging Garba to stop deceiving the public with wrong information.

“How can a group that encourages, supports, claps for and prods killers and terrorists be compared with Ohanaeze Ndigbo or Afenifere?” he quipped.

Ibegbu asked Garba Shehu to apologize to Ohanaeze and Afenifere for what he described as “verbal mismanagement”.

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Kidnap of Buhari’s in-law shows Daura is not given special treatment — Garba Shehu

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Kidnap of Buhari’s in-law shows Daura is not given special treatment — Garba Shehu

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said that the abduction of the District Head of Daura, Musa Uba, who is also the husband to President Buhari’s niece, Hajiya Bilki, shows that security agencies are not giving any town preferential treatment.

Garba said this when he appeared on AIT today Monday, May 6th.

When asked to speak on the increasing rate of banditry as evidenced by the abduction of the head of the President’s township which happened on May 1st, Shehu said,

“Well, that has happened but I think that brings the message home that it is a national problem and that because the President comes from Daura, that is not to say there cannot be crime in Daura or Daura will be specially treated. The army said two days ago that there are clear pointers that these problems are beyond criminality.”

Shehu, however, scored the Buhari administration 98 per cent in the fight against insurgency.

“If you ask me about the biggest security (challenge) we met on the ground, it is Boko Haram terrorism and I will score this administration 98 per cent coming this far because Boko Haram is now confined to the fringes of Lake Chad. As a matter of fact, they jump in and out and mainly occupy communities that have not been re-occupied by their owner'' he said.

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Defend Yourself Inline With The Law - Presidency Supports Danjuma's Call For Self Defence

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Defend Yourself Inline With The Law - Presidency Supports Danjuma's Call For Self Defence

 

A Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, yesterday backed calls by former Minister of Defence, Lieutenant General Theophilus Danjuma (Rtd) that Nigerians should defend themselves against the unending violence in some parts of the country.

Shehu, who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s political programme, Sunday Politics, however, warned that it must be within the ambit of the law.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with you defending yourself in line with the law,” he said.

“The security services in the country will probably not be telling Nigerians to do nothing when they come and attack,”

We reported that a day earlier, the Buhari-led government had appealed to prominent Nigerians, who have national influence, to watch what they say. 

Meanwhile, on the reaction of the President to the Former Defence Minister’s outburst, Shehu said he believed that President Buhari was taking the pleas made by Nigerians seriously in dealing with the issues raised.

“This is a listening government and the reaction then was of silence to say to them that we have heard you.

“We will listen to the useful advice you have given us. We will take what we can use from what you have said,” he noted.

The Presidential aide, however, exonerated the military of condoning attacks that have led to bloodshed in the land.

He was of the view that members of the Armed forces were there to defend citizens of the country even to their own detriment.

TY Danjuma had on March 24 accused the military of complicity in the killings within Taraba, Benue and other “riverine states” in the country.

According to Danjuma, during a convocation ceremony of Taraba State University, “The peace in this state is under assault. There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in this state and, of course, in all the riverine state of Nigeria. We must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up,”

Following his outburst, many Nigerians have expressed their views, with many criticizing the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for failing to address the security challenges in parts of the country.

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