Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession – Garba Shehu

The presidency on Tuesday made it known that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession.

This was according to a statement by Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu during a media parley at the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja.

He said those calling for secession are the problems of the country. Shehu noted that Nigerians want to be one and continue with the existence of the country. He further added that the Governors of the South-West have all denounced those calls.

“One thing with this president is, you can’t intimidate Buhari, you can’t bully him. A lot of these people who are calling for secession, they are the problem of this country. And I am happy that reasonable opinions, voices are now rising, he said

“Is it not only yesterday we read about Afenifere — the most credible faction of Afenifere — saying ‘we’re not for secession’? Ohanaeze Ndigbo said this over and over again.

“So, this thing about secession is they had used it in the past. You cry secession and breakup Nigeria and then you intimidate the sitting leader and then he opens the vault and he brings money to settle people.

“President Buhari will pay no one. He is not going to pay, and now it is clear that having ignored all of that, reasonable opinions are coming from those states and from those regions.

“The governors in the southwest — we have all heard them — they have denounced all of these things.

“So, it’s a sham. Nigerians want to be one. They want to continue. Yes, there are problems and we are hoping that as people united and loving of one another, we will come together and solve our problems.”