Former Presidential Aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Comrade Jude Imagwe has told president Muhammed Buhari to immediately fire his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,, Mr Garba Shehu over his recent comments on open grazing before he tears the country Apart.
Imagwe described Shehu statement as provocative and insulting to the 17 southern governors who banned open grazing after their meeting in Asaba, Delta State.
Afemaireporters recalled that the Southern Governors banned open grazing and called on the President to address Nigerians on the security situation in Nigeria.
However, in a statement on Monday by the Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, the Presidency said the plan by the governors to ban open grazing in the Southern part of the country is of “questionable legality”.
According to the presidency, the resolution reached in Asaba, Delta state capital, will not solve the farmer-herder clashes.
Shehu asserted that Buhari had earlier approved the rehabilitation of grazing reserves, adding that the clashes between the farmer and herders will be addressed with the President’s approval
Shehu noted that the governors’ action during the recent meeting in Asaba, Delta state is a violation of the constitutional right of Nigerians to live and do business in any part of the country, irrespective of such citizen’s state of origin.
Read the full statement: President Mohammadu Buhari must understand that Nigerians never elected Garba Shaihu, neither was he at any time adopted to speak to Nigerians on behalf of the country.
He is just a spoke person of the President, not the President of Nigeria, and should be stop from performing the duty of the President.
According to Imagwe, Buhari is gradually destroying every honor left in the office of the President. We can take every negligence of duty from the President. Still, one thing we will and can never tolerate is allowing an appointee of Buhari to insult the collective decision reached by those we have lawfully given our mandate to govern and pilot the affairs of our States (GOVERNORS).
Garba Shehu should immediately apologize to the government and people of the 17 Southern States and resign, or President Buhari should immediately relieve him of his appointment.
Buhari must understand that history will not judge Garba Shehu’s administration rather. Gen Buhari’s led failed, sectional, bigotry, and divisive government.
He call on president Buhari to act now or justify you are a sectional dictator benefiting democratic practice, he added.