El-Rufai has confirmed Buhari not aware of country’s situation – Afenifere

The Yoruba sociopolitical organization, Afenifere, has commented on the threat by terrorists to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Yoruba group said it does not take the threat by kidnappers and bandits as a minor issue.

The spokesman of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, said the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has affirmed that President Buhari was not aware of the reality in the country.

He said the insecurity in the nation caused by bandits and terrorists was a sign of the government’s failure.

The statement by the spokesperson reads partly: “It would be recalled that the Minister of Information, Lai Muhammed, described the threat by terrorists to kidnap President Buhari and Governor Rufai as laughable, while his counterpart in the Ministry of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said that the Nigerian economy is doing very well, far better than under the previous administrations.

“What further drove home the fact that President Buhari is not always aware of the reality of the country’s situation was the disclosure by Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State that President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware that terrorists threatened to kidnap both the President and himself until he (Rufai and Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State) told him.

“In any case, we in Afenifere do not take the threats by the kidnappers, bandits and terrorists lightly. What with another deadly attack that happened in Owo, Ondo State, on Wednesday, July 27th, barely seven weeks after the gruesome attack on St Francis Catholic Church in the same town. We in Afenifere, in strong terms, condemn this new attack as we did the previous time. It is seen as a provocation that can no longer be accepted.

“The impression had always been that the Chief Executive Officers at the national and State levels get daily briefings on the security situations in their respective areas.

“Had it not come from Governor El-Rufai, it would have been very difficult to believe that President Buhari was not aware that he was under the radar of would-be kidnappers.

“Yet those around the President were very much aware of this fact. Why didn’t they bring it to his attention? Where is the position, indeed the role, of the National Security Adviser in all these?

“We are asking these questions because, among others, funding cannot be an excuse.”

MOUTHPIECE NGR had earlier reported that a terrorist group in the North has issued a threat to the Nigerian President.

The terrorist group has threatened to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.

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