Buhari Should Step Down Honorably – Julius Abbe

Primate of the African Church, Julius Abbe has come out to urge President Mohammadu Buhari to resign honourably.

He recently revealed this during the activities to commemorate the church’s 120th Founders Day Anniversary yesterday at the African Church Model College, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos.

According to him, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder under the present administration, and the country’s present state could have been managed if there was political will on the part of the President to hearken to the yelling of Nigerians by allowing total restructuring of the country.

He added that it’ll be best for PMB to step down and give way to someone who has solutions to the myriads of problems facing Nigeria as a nation.

His words, “This is the result of our being careless in fixing a problem when it is still manageable. Now, the spark of fire has snowballed into an outbreak that requires much effort to extinguish.”

“The situation has become so worrisome to the point that people can no longer sleep with both eyes closed for fear of being attacked.”

“The situation had assumed a disturbing dimension in the last one month. The spate of violence, kidnapping, armed robbery, assignations, raping, arson, lawlessness and corruption in the country is alarming.”

“Between December 2020 and now, less than 700 students have been abducted and over 600 schools closed in the North. Between February and now, no fewer than 2 police officers have lost their lives to deliberate attacks at least eight police formations have been burnt in the South-East and South-South regions of the country.”

“Abduction of school children has now become terrible and is beyond our imaginations. Boko Haram has gained more territories than before. Kidnapping, insurgency, armed robbery, maiming and terrorism have taken a turn for the worse. If we are saying things were bad six years ago, they are worse now.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.