President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria will spare no efforts at getting rid of Boko Haram terrorists, especially in the North-Eastern part of the country.
Buhari also said that though the insurgent group has been weakened by the defence forces, it is still active in the country and reigning on soft targets.
He stated this on Friday while addressing over 80 world leaders at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Addressing the world leaders including the new UNGA President, Abdulla Shahid of Maldives, Buhari said, “Mr President, terrorism continues to dominate security discourse worldwide. In Nigeria, Boko Haram terrorist group though fragmented by internal strife and weakened by our defence forces is still active and reigning on soft targets.
“Nigeria will continue to work closely with the United Nation Counter-Terrorism Office with a view to bringing this group to an end.
“Nigeria has spared no efforts in addressing the challenges of terrorism posed by the activities of Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria, the Lake Chad region as well as banditry in the North-West and the North-Central.”
The President lamented that Nigeria was concerned about illicit trading and movement of small arms which was increasing criminality and insurgency in the country.
Buhari also said that the democratic gains recorded in West African are now being eroded by the activities of power grabbers in the region, a thinly veiled to recent military takeovers in Mali and Guinea, both in West Africa.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has admitted that copies of its pamphlets containing security tips for staff and corps members contain the “embarrassing” clause that advises corps members to prepare for ransom payment if abducted.
It also advised them to “establish a personal relationship with your abductors as soon as possible”.
The organisation, however, noted that it realised that different copies of the pamphlets are in circulation with some containing the clause and others not.
The NYSC spokesperson, Adenike Adeyemi, told Premium Times on Friday that an investigation had already been launched into the situation.
Adeyemi wrote, “We realised different copies are in circulation. We are investigating.”
On Thursday, the page containing the advice for the corps and staff on reaching out to the family and friends when plying “high-risk” roads flooded the social media.
The handbook, which is titled; “Security Awareness and Education Handbook For Corps Members and Staff,” on its page 56, advised both corps members and (and staff) travelling on “high-risk” roads to alert their “family members, friends and colleagues to have someone on hand to pay off the ransom that could be demanded” in case they are kidnapped.
The document lists such roads to include “Abuja-Kaduna, Abuja-Lokoja-Okene, or Aba-Port Harcourt” roads.
The document is produced by Watchcon Security Consultancy Services – a private security outfit, in collaboration with the headquarters of the National Youths Service Corps.
The pamphlet, on page 57, advises both the staff and corps members on how to conduct themselves when kidnapped, saying; “Do not antagonise your captors, be polite and operate with reasonable regards.”
It also advises the corps members and its staff to show reasonable cooperation to the abductors, and that they should “establish a personal relationship with your abductors as soon as possible.”
It further added; “The kidnappers may ask for contact persons, do not mention your place of work, but your close friends and parents. They will reach them to negotiate for your release.
“Advise your friends involved in the negotiations, they should be friendly with the captors.
“Take no risk by attempting to escape,” it also says.
“Make no statement to the media after your release without official clearance but share your experience with close associates,” it further counsels.
But in a statement released earlier on Friday, the NYSC denied including the piece of advice even though it issued the handbooks to youth corps members.
The reads in part; “The attention of Management of the National Youth Sevice Corps has been drawn to a fake release making the rounds on the social media to the effect that Corps Members travelling on “high risk roads” should alert their families, friends and colleagues in order to have somebody to pay off the ransom that could be demanded in the event of being kidnapped.
“Management wishes to emphatically state that the clause mischievously quoted is not embedded in NYSC Security Tips pamphlet which was put together by a highly respected retired security expert.
“Management wishes to appeal to the general public to always clarify issues with the Scheme.”
The organisation, therefore, advises Nigerians to always verify things before sharing them on social media, saying it “has offices in all the states of the federation, as well as the 774 Local Government Areas in the country for enquiries.”
“Please, be wary of falling prey to the antics of mischief makers out to ridicule the Scheme,” it added.
Following the discovery of the clause, Nigerians have flooded the social media including Twitter, to condemn the document.
Many also described the rebuttal by the organisation as an “open lie”, saying they were shocked that a public organisation would be so bold to continue its defence in the face of clear evidence to the contrary.
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday (today) address the 76th session of the high-level general debate of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York.
The Nigerian leader would deliver his address around 9:00 a.m. (around 2:00 p.m. Nigerian time) to other world leaders during the morning session.
Buhari will speak to the theme of the Assembly and other global issues.
The theme for the 76th session is, “Building Resilience Through Hope – To Recover from COVID-19, Rebuild Sustainably, Respond to the Needs of the Planet, Respect the Rights of People and Revitalise the United Nation.’’
Friday’s session will also include speeches by leaders from The Gambia, South Sudan, Republic of Benin, Senegal and Germany, among others.
The Nigerian leader has participated in some bilateral meetings with a number of leaders of other countries’ delegations and heads of International Development organisations.
Buhari has met with the President of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, held a meeting with Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation and also attended the UN Food Systems Summit.
On Thursday, Buhari held a bilateral meeting with Maxima Zorreguieta, Queen of The Netherlands, where he begged for support from the European nation. He also participated in a hybrid high-level event, tagged “Transformative Actions for Nature and People”.
In addition, the Nigerian delegation had participated in other high-level meetings such as the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on Reparations, Racial Justice and Equality for People of African Descent.
The delegation also attended a high level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, among others.
A Chief Superintendent of Police, Kazeem Abonde, has been killed during a clash between Policemen and motorcyclists in the Ajao Estate area of Lagos State.
The incident, which happened at Ajao Estate Junction Bus Stop, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road, started around 11 am on Thursday when the officers stormed the area to raid a criminal hideout.
Trouble started after the officers seized some motorcycles and put them in their mini trucks. Subsequently, the commercial motorcyclists (popularly known as okada riders) went berserk. The situation degenerated when Policemen began to shoot sporadically into the air to scare them away.
It was gathered that Kazeem, who had less than eight months to retire from the Force, went to restore calm when he learnt his men were having issues with the commercial motorcyclists.
A photo circulating online shows the bloodied remains of the policeman as he lay motionless by the roadside. His head appeared to have been smashed.
An eyewitness said the Policemen involved in the incident were attached to the Ajao Police Station.
Meanwhile, the former Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, noted that the victim had already set up a law firm, K.S Abonde & Co as part of his retirement plans before the unfortunate incident.
He wrote, “He had this in preparation for his retirement in the next few months. So sad. Man proposes, God disposes. Be upright and live as if there is no tomorrow.”
Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has explained why his principal hosted an unsparing critic of the regime and former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, in Aso Villa following his defection to the ruling All Progress Congress.
Adesina wrote:
Not a small ruckus has been caused by the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) last week.
An icing on the cake, or the salt added to injury (depending on which side you are), was his reception at the Presidential Villa by Muhammadu Buhari, father of the nation. The development has been rocking the polity for many days.
FFK is by no means a miscellaneous personality, and whatever he does, or does not do, attracts loads of attention.
He was a founding member of the APC, before he ported back to the PDP. And he did not leave quietly. He ruffled feathers and stirred up the mud. He became a rabid hater of his former party and its members.
Between last week and now, vitriol poured by FFK on anybody with the slightest affinity to APC has been dug up serially. He has said things straight from the gutters, things that the natural man would call unforgivable and unpardonable. Against President Buhari, the first family, Yusuf Buhari whom he wished had died when the latter had an almost fatal bike accident, APC as a party, the government, leaders of the party, groups and individuals. Even this writer has suffered horrid descriptions from FFK in many write-ups.
Yes, he even said he would rather die than return to APC, but last week, he returned—well and alive.
Naturally, a lot of loyal APC members are hopping mad that FFK was readmitted into the party. And not only that, he got back at the highest level. Not at his ward in Ile-Ife, Osun State, but the triumphal entry was at the Presidential Villa, with President Buhari himself as the host.
I understand the umbrage taken against the development by teeming APC supporters. It’s the natural thing to do. But then, having vented spleen, raised dust and almost brought down the roof, the next thing is to isolate the issues dispassionately.
With the bile displayed towards President Buhari and his family over the years, how did the man find the grace to have received FFK? How was he convinced? Who did the convincing? What were the extenuating factors? How? When? Why?
By agreeing to the readmission of FFK to APC as the leader of the party, and hosting him at the Villa, President Buhari displayed amazing capacity to forgive, to show mercy, and let bygones be bygones. How many of us can do that? Not many.
Remember William Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice:
“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blessed him that gives and him that takes… It is an attribute of God Himself.”
That was what Buhari did to FFK. He showed him mercy, dropping like gentle rain from heaven, when he could have otherwise spat into the sky, collecting the spittle with his own face. Was that not what me and you would have done? Confess. We would have told FFK to go to hell, and stay there. But Buhari didn’t. He displayed an attribute of God: forgiveness.
One of the lies that had been serially told against the President was his alleged unforgiving spirit, a falsehood sold to Nigerians by anti-Buhari forces since the days of military rule. The lie traveled for so long, till it was eventually overtaken by the truth in one day. Nigerians saw through the facade, and elected Buhari as President in 2015. Re-elected him with wider margin in 2019.
I have worked with the President for over six years. And I have seen amazing things in terms of accommodation and capacity to forgive. I have visited him at home many times in the evenings, only to find at dinner table with him people who had been abusing his forefathers on television earlier in the day. This President has a capacity to forgive, and forget. And make peace. That was what he displayed in the case of FFK. Nothing short of divine attribute, which me and you should covet and seek to approximate.
True, the brother of the prodigal son in the Good Book was unhappy, after his sibling had engaged in riotous living, squandered his inheritance, and came back home in penury. And the father received him with glee, and slaughtered the fatted calf in celebration.
The brother was indignant. He accused the father of bad faith, saying he had remained faithful and loyal, and not once did the father give him a goat to kill, and make merry with his friends.
That is the case of the APC members who have been unhappy at the reception given FFK. He did not deserve it, they claim. True. But how many things don’t we deserve, but which eventually come our way? That is the inscrutable nature of God, and we should not begrudge ourselves, or anybody else. How many things have come your way, which you really don’t deserve? But God gave those things to you, nevertheless. Same with FFK.
I think those screaming blue murder and lamenting the injustice and unfairness of it all should hold their peace. They have made their points, and should let things be. Enough! FFK is back, let sleeping dogs lie. He may stay this time round, as he claims to have had a Damascus road experience, which turned Saul to Paul.
Many times, FFK has used unprintable words against me. He has deployed phrases from the nether region against me. But after writing those things, and we met in public places, he would embrace me, calling me his “friend and brother.” I agree, we are brothers, though I should hold giant sized grudges against him. President Buhari has shown us the way . To err is human, to forgive, divine.
And come to think of it. Is it pleasant to swallow one’s vomit? Nah. But that was what FFK did. All those foul words against the President, the APC, the government, many people in government. He has swallowed them. Delicious? By no means. Pueh! You would feel like retching. So, let’s salute the courage of his conviction. It is rare, and not many people would do it.
I welcome FFK back to APC. And I pray it is for an enduring time. I thank President Buhari for showing an astounding large heart. That’s how to be a father. He has confounded all those who peddle lies about him, and the balderdash about not forgiving.
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. It has dropped upon FFK. May it always drop on us, for “it blesses him that gives, and him that takes.” Amen, somebody!
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has accepted the role of Professor of Cybersecurity based on the instruction of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“This decision is sequel to my briefing to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Friday 26th march, 2021 and his permission for me to go ahead and share my knowledge and experience in the academia, which is a form of community service to our citizens,” Pantami said.
This statement is contained in documents signed by Pantami himself and uploaded online by Professor Farooq Kperogi.
Pantami had accepted the post of Professor at the Imo-based institution before it had been formally offered to him, based on the available documents. The Islamic cleric accepted the position in March. However, the appointment letter offering the professorship post to Pantami has August 20 as its date.
Pantami also erroneously said described the school as being in “Imo, Owerri State,” rather than Owerri, Imo State.
Though Buhari had named Pantami as a political appointee in 2016, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri defended its decision to appoint Pantami as a Professor, saying it was based on his research at the National Information Technology Development Agency.
The registrar of the school, John Nnabuihe, said that the promotion was “based on his qualification which he merited through long years of research works.”
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it would investigate the controversial appointment and has directed its FUTO chapter to look into the circumstances under which Pantami was promoted to the highest academic rank in the institution.
It had been reported that the Governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, placed commercials in newspapers congratulating Pantami on his promotion to a Professor of Cybersecurity, kickstarting the speculation and criticism around Pantami’s appointment.
The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has expressed support for calls by the Southern Governors’ Forum that the Presidency should be zoned to the South in 2023.
The National Secretary General of the association, Mr Sola Ebiseni , stated this in a statement issued in Akure, on Wednesday.
The statement was titled ‘Power rotation in the Nigerian federation – Presidency must return to the South.’
It read, “The resolution of the Southern Governors Forum insisting that the next President of Nigeria should come from the South of the country is not new.
“The governors only lent gubernatorial authority to a national consensus on the issue. The fact that, since 1999, the office of the President has been rotated between the South and North in a consistent row of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and the present, President Muhammadu Buhari, is not an accident.
“It is a national consensus that has ensured peaceful transition of power in the polity. This national political understanding has endured notwithstanding that, since Independence in 1960 up to 1999 (39 years), the North has virtually monopolised the leadership of Nigeria as Prime Minister, President or Military Head of State, except for the three and half years of accidental emergence of Olusegun Obasanjo as Military Head of State.
“It is therefore gibberish to suggest that power should return to the north after 8 years of President Buhari on the ground that President Umar Yar’ Adua, elected on 29th May 2007, and died May 5, 2010, could not complete 8 years thereby supposedly depriving the north of some 4 years.
“The concept of power rotation seeks to fuse together and give the component Nigerian ethnic nationalities a sense of belonging for practical expression to the inevitable quest for national integration in the process of nation building.”
The statement called on political stakeholders from the South not to be lured into the “unpatriotic step of seeking such other positions as National Chairmen of the main political parties, but join forces to demand and ensure that the Presidency moves to the South in 2023. This resolution stands sacrosanct.”
Norah Okafor, a Nigerian journalist, has narrated how some officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) broke her gate, doors and barged into her house at 2am in Abia State.
She accused the operatives of storming her house in a “commando-like manner.”
The Nigerian journalist in a Facebook post earlier said, “At exactly 1:36am, I was alerted by my brother that there are armed robbers at my gate trying to make their way into the compound. Because it was an electric fence, I didn’t bother enough because I felt they can’t make their way in. Alas, I was wrong. 2am on the dot, they made their way into the compound.
“They came prepared. Over 25 of them with two hilux buses, masked and dressed in black upon black. A huge one climbed the fence, with a plier and immediately cut off a few of the wires, jumped into the compound and with an axe, broke the gate key open and zoom, they made their first entry into my apartment. As a nude sleeper, while they tried to make their way into the compound, I found something to wear while my brothers and I were thinking of a way of escape. The worst case scenario for me is that they will rape or take the only valuable available (a car key) so I prepared my mind.
“The next thing I realised was that about 7 of them were already in my room with shouts of ‘lie down, face down, on the light, where’s your phone, where’s your car key’, where’s this and that..confused me. Seeing over 25 hefty men with different kinds of guns, ‘mhen, e don be, be that’. I handed the phone to them with the key, before then, they had already taken hold of my laptop. I turned to be sure these were armed robbers, and they asked for my passwords to all the devices collected with masking tape to identify each. Still in shock, I heard someone destroying everything in the kitchen, my room, that of my brothers and all the drawers. I was still asking myself what’s happening? They asked me to stand and follow them downstairs, lo and beyond, they unmasked themselves, hmmmm..are these kind criminals? I asked. All my neighbours were already going through the same pain as me.
“They had already given my brothers a beating of their lives, carried my neighbour downstairs and tried unlocking all the cars in the compound. And after searching all the phones and laptops, three of their men walked in, lo and behold, it was EFCC. What? I screamed.
“Shut up, was the next thing I heard and when they couldn’t open my phone, they asked me to, I did and after a while I just asked, please, where is your office so I can come pick up my things on my way to work. They asked me what I do and I said ‘journalist’, (they) asked my neighbour he said ‘lawyer’, the other ‘doctor’. They looked at me, handed over the phones and said, ‘We just wasted our time’.
“These fools spent over one hour molesting and destroying things in this compound. I feel so pained and embarrassed right now. Is this how EFCC operate? How did we get here? Who is the informant? I am just confused right now. Thank God my mum isn’t here.”
When contacted by SaharaReporters, Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman for the commission, claimed he was not aware of the raid.
“You said Abia right, that should be under Port Harcourt Zone, let me call them,” he told SaharaReporters.
When asked about the recent commando-like manner EFCC operatives have been operating, he said, “You are forming an opinion already, that’s not a question, send your question as a text to me.”
The anti-graft agency has been under fire recently for raiding hotels and private apartments in commando-like manner.
It had been reported, last week, how operatives of the commission conducted a series of raids on some hotels in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, allegedly in search of suspected internet fraudsters during which its operatives opened fire on some lodgers.
Eyewitnesses said the armed EFCC officials, who operated like armed robbers, stormed Abeokuta in the early hours of September 13 in Toyota Hilux buses and made their way to at least three hotels and two nightclubs.
A witness was quoted as saying, “My cousin was shot because he tried to escape from the hotel and we quickly drove him to a hospital where he was briefly treated before we moved him to Ilaro for full recovery. It was really bad because they operated like armed robbers and they were very fast with their activities.”
Another witness said electricity was disconnected before one of the hotels was raided and officers did not knock before pulling down doors, breaking into rooms and violating the privacy of both men and women.
A lady said, “They threw everybody into darkness before raiding our hotel. One of them with ‘afro’ (hair style) seized my iPhone and used the torch to check my private parts before dipping in one of his fingers.
“I couldn’t say anything because I knew that my fiancé is a suspect and I warned him but he didn’t listen to me and we are getting married soon.”
It was gathered that over 30 cars were seized at Mitros alone, which witnesses linked to an infamous internet fraud suspect who was celebrating his birthday at the facility.
Witnesses also said the EFCC agents wanted to enter Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, but realised that its proprietor, Gbenga Daniel, was in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and subsequently left after initially parking outside the hotel.
In August, Big Brother Naija Lockdown housemate, Dorathy Bachor, also accused armed operatives of the agency of breaking into her Lagos residence around 04:45am.
She said the EFCC officials identified her as a BBNaija star and left afterwards.
The serial entrepreneur said her aged mother almost suffered a “panic attack” as a result of the incident.
The ex-housemate also posted videos showing men in red uniforms in her compound.
In July, 2021, Biodun Stephen, a Nollywood filmmaker also narrated how EFCC officials broke into her hotel room in Lagos.
“That is how I slept in a hotel whilst filming last week. Next thing, I open my eyes at a little past 3 am. What did I see? Two men dressed in black weapons. I thought I was dreaming. Then I heard the door to my room close.
“I sprang up and without thinking shouted: ‘stay right there!!! Who are you!!! They replied: ‘We are EFCC’. My head sparked. Are you kidding me? You enter into my room unannounced?? EFCC: Madam, we knocked but no response. You decided to enter my room?? You should have kept knocking.
“I was sleeping like every normal person would. One just opened his mouth and said: “Where is the man of the room. I was confused at first. The who? He replied: ‘your partner.’
She said one of the officials apologised to her when they realised that she was not the one they were after.
“Anger welled up inside me…Is this one roving mad man? His partner realised his folly because he quickly apologised. ‘You are not the one we are looking for.’”
“I watched as they interviewed guests rudely and arrested a few. They knew the people they were after. I lost sleep afterwards. Then I heard, this is the new thing with EFCC.
“They burst into hotel rooms in the middle of the night. Not caring who you are, in what state you are. I mean, the hotel is a really decent one so I couldn’t understand how this could happen. They alleged that the EFCC barges their way in…A mess, I tell you,” she had posted.
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed November 30 for judgment in a suit filed by deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, against the Kano State government and others.
The Presiding Judge, Anwuli Chikere, fixed the date after counsel to the parties adopted all their processes and arguments.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanusi had on March 12, 2020, sued the Inspector-General of Police and Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) for “unlawful detention/confinement” at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Also joined in the motion with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020 are the Attorney-General of Kano State and Attorney General of the Federation as 3rd and 4th respondents.
Sanusi, after his banishment from Kano, was confined to Awe town, Nasarawa State.
The former emir had sought an interim order of the court releasing him from detention and/or confinement of the respondents and restoring his right to human dignity and personal liberty.
Although the deposed emir had since been released, the case is still in court as the originating motion remains undetermined.
The Nigerian Government is hiring black foreigners living in the United States of America (USA), paying $500 per head to stage a Pro-President Muhammadu Buhari and One Nigeria March opposite the United Nations Headquaters in New York, a separatist leader has said.
Prof. Banji Akintoye, the Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), alleged that the protest will be staged on Friday, September 24, 2021.
The indigenous people of the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria under the aegis of NINAS had staged what it tagged “Million-Man Freedom March” on September 14 and 15 opposite the United Nations Headquaters in New York to demand a referendum in Nigeria.
The march was also to show the world the crimes against humanity, attacks on press freedom, free speech and other atrocities going on under Buhari-led government.
NINAS is demanding the conduct of a regional referendum so that indigenous people can decide if they want to leave Nigeria or not.
The group also described the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as a fraud against the people of South and Middle-Belt, saying “it was enacted without the consent of the people”.
NINAS is also demanding from the United Nations that a Fulani Militia Group masquerading as a Trade Union, Miyyetii Allah, should be declared as a terrorist organisation, saying it has openly taken responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in the South and Middle-Belt regions.
The Grand Finale of the NINAS Million-Man Freedom March holds on September 24, 2021, the day President Buhari will be addressing the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly .
NINAS is the umbrella body for self-determination Groups in the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria with Ilana Omo Oodua, representing the Yoruba Land, Lower Niger Congress representing the South South and South East and Middle-Belt Rennaissance Movement representing the Middle Belt Region.
Akintoye, in a statement made available to journalists through the NINAS Director of Public Communications, Mr. Maxwell Adeleye, said no matter how the Nigerian Government tries to scuttle the NINAS Grand March, the will of the people shall prevail.
Accusing an unnamed top Nigerian government official and a popular Lagos journalist of currently hiring foreigners to masquerade as pro-One Nigeria protesters to counter NINAS in New York on Friday, Akintoye described the government agents as Wilfredo Pareto and Genato Mosca’s Elitist Lions
He described NINAS protesters as the Foxes, saying “irrespestive of the material and financial superiorities of these Lions, there’s no way they can defeat United Foxes in a democracy.”
He said, “The Friday Grand March in New York shall be historic, hence, the Nigerian government is jittery. The Ring Leader of Government officials from Kwara State and a top Lagos journalist are now in New York to start hiring black people who will pretend as Nigerians to stage a Pro-Buhari and One Nigeria Protest to counter NINAS on Friday.
“But we refuse to be rattled. We shall not be intimidated. No oppressor has ever triumphed against the collective will of the people. The people are the government and power belongs to the people. The people make the Constitution. The sovereignty belongs to the people. Our own strength lies in the hands of the people. Therefore, our March shall be people centered. It shall be peaceful as usual.
“All the people of the South and Middle-Belt in United States and Canada are urged to troop out in their large number to be present on Friday, 24th September 2021 opposite the United Nations Headquaters in New York as we demonstrate and expose before the world, the rape of our ancestral lands and hijack of our assets and sovereignty by the Fulani-Controlled Nigerian Government.
“I salute the Nigerian mainstream media and International Media that have been covering the March to remain resolute and stand by the truth.”
