An insider who has privy to the proceedings of last week meeting of Vice President Namadi Sambo with 19 Northern Governors has told SaharaReporters that the governors mostly from North-East said the Boko Haram hype and security threats are above their power despite all efforts and avenues they have exhausted, and demand holistic approach.
An insider who has privy to the proceedings of last week meeting of Vice President Namadi Sambo with 19 Northern Governors has told SaharaReporters that the governors mostly from North-East said the Boko Haram hype and security threats are above their power despite all efforts and avenues they have exhausted, and demand holistic approach.
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Some of the governors boldly told the VP their anger and disgust with some steps of President Jonathan, and some of his aides in the resolutions of the lingering Boko Haram crises.
The governors resolved to pursue political solution to the Boko Haram menace, in the affected states and they agreed to achieve that free from involving security agencies but traditional and religious leaders and also families of the Boko Haram top leadership as a means of appealing to them.
Governor Kashim Shettima, it was learnt said he has exhausted all avenues to overcome the insecurity ravaging his state. The governor said the Boko Haram sect members are known in the state and are just guided by sheer ideology, and holistic approach is needed and expressed disgust over several approaches of the Federal Government, he claimed has dampen reconciliation.
The source quoted the Governors of Niger, Borno, and Yobe states expressing displeasures over presidential actions, particularly when the emergency rule was imposed without their consultations and they heard it like other Nigerians. They are of the view that counter positions and several outbursts have done harm to dialogue in the bid to end the face-up.
The source said “They told the VP, that several times when their emissaries are underground talking with Boko Haram representatives, you will hear Mr. President saying different thing in the media, and the next day NSA and Defence Minister saying another thing. The following week you will hear IGP and Chief of Army Staff singing different tunes, all these are not good to the system. These are things they told Sambo. And the need for the government control lips of its personnel and as even the president himself.”
The source added that “The governors told Sambo to liaise with the President, and come up with directives that Commissioners of Police, SSS Directors, Military Commanding Officers in the North should be in touch with the governors in carrying out operations without informing them. They insisted that they have been proving financial and logistic support to the security agencies, and so they should be put in picture of things and also demand minimal control over the agencies in the move of addressing some of the cases, they said needs political approach than face-up in some cases.”
After the meeting that lasted about eight hours, the Vice President on coming out told the press "It is a meeting with the 19 governors of the Northern states of the federation and the ministers of Police and Defence and the representative of the National Security Adviser. We have discussed the need for cooperation in the security of this country and particularly, the Northern states. And in this meeting, it is very clear that there is no religious problem, religious fighting in northern Nigeria.
"There is a threat of terrorists and the need to address this terrorism act. Nigeria is one country and we will do everything to ensure that we have peace in the North and in the country in general. All the state governments as usual will further cooperate with the federal government in ensuring that the safety of lives and properties is maintained in all parts of the country."
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