Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, says President
Muhammadu Buhari cannot be bullied into giving money to persons who are
agitating for secession.
Shehu stated this on Tuesday at an event organised by the
All Progressives Congress (APC).
He alleged that the calls for secession have been used in
the past to demand money from sitting president, but maintained that Buhari
will not succumb to such tactics.
He, however, commended socio-political groups like Afenifere
and Ohanaeze Ndigbo for their stance against disintegration, adding that
Nigerians prefer to be united.
“You can’t intimidate
Buhari; you can’t bully him. A lot of these people who are calling for
secession are the problem of this country. I am happy that reasonable voices
are now rising,” he said.
“Is it not only yesterday we read about Afenifere — the most
credible faction of Afenifere — saying ‘we’re not for secession’? Ohanaeze
Ndigbo said this over and over again.
“So, this thing about secession is they had used it in the
past. You create secession and break up Nigeria and then you intimidate the
sitting leader and then he opens the vault and he brings money to settle
people.
“President Buhari
will pay no one. He is not going to pay, and now it is clear that having
ignored all of that, reasonable opinions are coming from those states and from
those regions.
“The governors in the south-west — we have all heard them —
they have denounced all of these things.
“So, it’s a sham. Nigerians want to be one. They want to
continue. Yes, there are problems and we are hoping that as people united and
loving of one another, we will come together and solve our problems.”
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