The National Rescue Movement (NRM) has urged Nigerians; especially leaders, not to overheat the polity and aggravate the current security challenges.
The party in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said the prevailing tension in the land due to economic down turn, unemployment, poverty and armed banditry posed a serious challenge.
The spokesman of the party, Prince Chinedu Obi, said in the statement that the recent outburst credited to Gen. TY Danjuma calling on Nigerians to defend themselves was uncalled for because it was capable of aggravating the security situation.
“Although it is reaction to frustration over failure of government to adequately protect lives and property of Nigerians as enshrined in the constitution, Gen. Danjuma’s statement is not necessarily meant to incite the people to carry arms and defend themselves, but a call for people to be vigilant and the military to see the need to change strategy in dealing with the security situation where people don’t feel safe before they adopt self-protection which is the first law of nature,” the statement said.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio over allegation of financial crimes. Daily Trust gathered that Akpabio honoured the invitation by the anti-graft agency to explain allegations of looting of the state’s funds during his tenure. Sources told our correspondent that Senator Akpabio was being interrogated late yesterday evening at the Abuja head offices of the Commission. He was spotted at the EFFC office in company of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, at about 5:20pm. Akpabio’s arrest yesterday is fallout of the petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, who had on June 8 this year petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the EFCC, calling for Senator Akpabio’s probe and accusing him of looting. The petitioner had earlier on Wednesday adopted his petition and provided more details to the anti-graft agency on the allegations against the minority leader of People...
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