Speaking, while meeting with the governors, Osinbajo also asked them to eschew narratives that might originally be expedient and satisfying but deceiving and unhealthy in the end. He said, “Sometimes, intentions are perceived on the account of the fact that they have wrong perception about a particular thing. I think it is in our place to ensure that we dig down the fact and ensure that people are given the fact and ensure that we don’t colour them with politics.” The acting president also appealed to the governors to speak more forcefully against divisive speeches and promote the nation’s democracy.
One of many great steps Nigerians have observed the Federal Government has taken at checking ethnic disturbances ignited by Igbo youths incessant agitations for Biafra and provocative statements and hate speeches against other parts of the country may have been the meeting with the 36 states’ governors including Ekiti State’s Ayodele Fayose on Wednesday where he urged them not to play politics with the issue of security in their respective states, which may result from the agitations and counter-agitations in the quit notice by Arewa Youths insisting that Igbo living in the North must leave latest October 1.
The Acting President had on Wednesday urged the state governors to resist the temptation to play politics with security in view of the Igbo agitation for Biafra and the quit notice some Northern youths gave the Igbo resident in the region.
This was just as Osinbajo and the governors agreed at a meeting held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja that Nigeria’s unity is sacrosanct.
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, speaking after the meeting, told State House reporters that the meeting agreed that, “The unity of this country is sacrosanct. We agreed to address the issues of poverty and unemployment; we cannot play with the unity of this country.”
Speaking, while meeting with the governors, Osinbajo also asked them to eschew narratives that might originally be expedient and satisfying but deceiving and unhealthy in the end.
He said, “Sometimes, intentions are perceived on the account of the fact that they have wrong perception about a particular thing. I think it is in our place to ensure that we dig down the fact and ensure that people are given the fact and ensure that we don’t colour them with politics.”
The acting president also appealed to the governors to speak more forcefully against divisive speeches and promote the nation’s democracy.
Osinbajo, who said there were attempts to play up fault lines and create tension in the country, noted that conflagration and war, all over the world, starts with words.
The acting president stressed that the federal and state governments must ensure that Nigerians live peacefully anywhere in the country.
The governors in attendance include those of Sokoto, Kano, Osun, Oyo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Borno, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Edo, Lagos, Kebbi, Ondo, Imo, Taraba and Anambra States.
