President Muhammadu Buhari has been challenged by Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, to bring a restructuring bill to the National Assembly.
The issue came after Buhari said in his Democracy Day speech that the National Assembly is responsible for reforming the country, as some Nigerians have demanded.
In response to this, Afenifere’s Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, issued a statement yesterday urging the President to present the restructuring and power devolution bill to the legislative branch as soon as possible.
Doing this, the group noted, would “Nigerians to believe that he meant what he says.”
On the president’s claim that his administration has not done badly in the last six years, Afenifere declared that “Nigerians were far better off in virtually everything in 2015 than they are presently.”
“For the President to claim that the country is better now than in 2015 clearly shows that he is not in touch with reality or that he has a different measurement when comparing the two eras,” he added.
The body regretted that the president confessed the seeming helplessness of his administration in combating the insecurity that was about to consume the country presently.
“I am more pained than anyone can imagine with the ongoing security challenges because… they have increased the hunger, pain, and anger in the land,” the president said.
President Buhari does not need to tell us all of this since we already know and feel it.
What is required of him is to take actual action to address the issues he so eloquently outlined.”
According to what he (the President) confessed to telling Governor Jide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State when the latter came to him with images of the destruction during the #EndSars demonstration in Lagos, the President was also accused of being insensitive.
Afenifere accused President Buhari of shifting blame and responsibilities when pressed on what his government ought to do.
“Were this not to be so, he would not have hidden his inability to confront insecurity problems on the excuse that state governors are allegedly pocketing allocations meant for the local government councils in their respective states.
“Also, he would not have sent Governors Seyi Makinde and Rotimi Akeredolu of Oyo and Ondo states back to go and face the insecurity problems in their states when he knew perfectly well that the tools to tackle the problem are not within the control of these governors.
