The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has adviced President Muhammadu Buhari to voluntarily step down following overwhelming insecurity in the country.
NEF explained that the constitution has provisions for leaders to voluntarily step down if they proved incapable of leading.
The Northern Elders Forum stated that it is now time for Buhari to seriously consider that option, since his leadership had proved spectacularly incapable of providing security over Nigerians.
The group, in a statement issued by its Director, Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said the administration of Buhari did not appear to have answers to the challenges of security to which the nation was exposed.
“We cannot continue to live and die under the dictates of killers, kidnappers, rapists and sundry criminal groups that have deprived us of our rights to live in peace and security,” NEF said.
According to NEF, the nation’s constitution has provisions for leaders to voluntarily step down if they are challenged by personal reasons or they proved incapable of leading.
“Our Forum is aware of the weight of this advice, and it is also aware that we cannot continue to live under these conditions until 2023 when President Buhari’s term ends,” the group said.
The group lamented that killers and other criminals appeared to have sensed a paralyzing vacuum at the highest levels of leadership, and that they grew more confident and acquired more competence in subverting the State and the security.
NEF added that Nigerians had shed enough tears and blood without appropriate response from those with responsibilities to protect the people.