Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru has reacted to Malami’s recent statement concerning the uproar in the north and Eastern part of Nigeria.
Ajibola Basiru has asked the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami to stop “rubbishing the Buhari-led APC government” with his utterances.
Basiru who was reacting to Malami comparing the ban on open grazing by Southern Governors to prohibition of spare parts trading in the North, stated that “anyone who cannot rise above primordial sentiments and pursue a parochial ethnic agenda need not occupy a position of trust especially at this time of sectional agitations.”
According to the senate spokesperson, such statements have made Nigeria a laughing stock in the comity of Nations and also not giving hope to those at the receiving end of the activities of the herdsmen.
Basiru said;
“Anyone who cannot rise above primordial sentiments and pursue a parochial ethnic agenda need not occupy a position of trust especially at this time of sectional agitations.
“It was not dignifying of the status of the nation’s attorney-general and minister of justice to make such remarks.
“Those who have no meaningful contributions to national discourse operating on the basis of equity and justice to keep quiet and stop rubbishing the Buhari-led APC government.
“These kind of statements have made Nigeria a laughing stock in the comity of Nations and they ridicule the administration of President Buhari. These statements are not giving hope to those at the receiving end of the activities of the herdsmen.”
