Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to resign his position as Nigeria’s president with immediate effect.
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, made this call at a press conference held at Government House, Makurdi, on Monday.
The governor was speaking on the current deterioration of state of the nation.
Governor Ortom who lampooned the President Buhari led All Progressive Congress, APC, administration for ineptitude and inaction in addressing challenges facing the country said the country may go from bottom where it is currently to underneath if he continues in office.
Naming cases of insecurity, disunity among other challenges, Ortom said the APC government has failed the nation and, therefore, president Buhari must resign and hand over to his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo.
“The APC led government has completely failed to fulfill the promises they made to Nigerians in 2015. I was part of the people who elected President Buhari and we worked very hard for it.
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“I have not seen the level of nepotism that is done in this administration. We have never seen this level of disunity, insecurity and we have not witnessed the economy going down the way it is doing. People are keeping quiet but I have called the press conference to let Mr President know that things are not going well in this country.”
Ortom who noted that the primary responsibility of any government is security of lives and property condemned continuous killings of innocent Benue farmers by militia herdsmen and the inability of the federal government to curtail them.
“I have more than 1.5 million IDPs in Benue as a result of herdsmen killings and the N10 billion the president promised to Benue and other states has not been redeemed. The growing number of out of school children is a dangerous trend and we must take actions to redeem ourselves. I have severally proposed security summit but nothing has happened.
“This is incompetence, non performance, bare-footedness and visionless. I want President Buhari to accept the fact that he has failed this country and he should honourably resign as the president of Nigeria and hand over to his vice. He will do better that what we have now.”
He called on Nigerians to rise up, above political, religious and tribal sentiments, and join hands with Benue in insisting that more proactive steps are taken to fight insecurity, corruption and other challenges facing the country.
