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Southern governors’ call for restructuring must not be anti-Buhari: Yahaya Bello

“When we talk of restructuring or various demands or various resolutions put across by my colleagues from the South, they are quiet germane and they are entitled to their opinions.

• May 14, 2021
Yahaya Bello
Yahaya Bello

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Friday said calls for restructuring should not be pushed as a fight between southern governors and President Muhammadu Buhari. 

Governors from all southern states in a meeting held at Asaba, Delta State on May 11 announced a ban on open grazing in the region among other germane resolutions. The governors also charged the president to address the nation on the overarching security challenges plaguing the nation. 

Mr Bello, who admitted that calls from governors of southern states are genuine, said it would be wrong to be combative about restructuring.

“When we talk of restructuring or various demands or various resolutions put across by my colleagues from the South, they are quiet germane and they are entitled to their opinions. I so respect it,” Mr Bello told Channels TV on Friday. “But let me tell you, when it is tilted or when appears as if you fighting president Muhammadu Buhari, our father and president, we are all getting it wrong.” 

Mr Bello further said Buhari alone did not bring Nigeria to its current state of insecurity  and past successive government must also be blamed. 

“We got to where we are today as a result of maladministration of successive administrations not just president Muhammadu Buhari,” Mr Bello said.

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