The House of Representatives, and a tearful governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom calls on the Federal Government to urgently declare a state of emergency on security in the country.
The House and Governor Ortom’s calls came against the backdrop of killing of no fewer than seven Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in an attack on the Abagena IDPs camp located on the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue State capital, in the early hours of yesterday by suspected armed herdsmen militia.
Buhari had also met behind closed doors with Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the pioneer interim national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, at the State House over the security situation in the country, with the governor declaring he was in Aso Rock to tell the President the truth on the situation in his state.
This is even as President Buhari emerged from a virtual meeting with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, asking the international community to support Nigeria and the sub-region in tackling growing security challenges to avoid spillovers.
This, he added, they could do by relocating AFRICOM Headquarters to Africa to coordinate security in West Africa.
