{"id":358935,"date":"2021-05-31T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358935"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:28:20","slug":"insecurity-buharis-silence-worries-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358935","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Buhari’s silence worries Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many Nigerians are baffled by President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s continuous silence in the face of worsening insecurity in the country.
\nSo many questions are being raised by Nigerians concerning the current leadership.
\nSome believe that the President has shut his door, gone to bed and is not even aware of the \u2018banging\u2019 on his door as Nigerians call for help over widespread insecurity.
\nDespite daily reports of killings, kidnappings and economic downturn, President Buhari has not addressed the nation either through a televised speech or on a live television which Nigerians have not seen for many years.
\nDAILY POST recalls that President Buhari addressed the nation last on New Year Day, when he pledged to tackle security problems, revive the economy and distribute coronavirus vaccines.
\nIn his nearly 20-minute televised address then, Buhari said his government would take a different approach to key issues in 2021.
\nNigerians are now asking pertinent questions on hhat is happening to their president.
\nFor the last 5 months of pain, anguish and hunger in Nigeria, Buhari has not spoken to Nigerians with many people wondering why this is so.
\nThe South East and South South are gradually becoming war-zones, agitations for Oduduwa Republic are high in the Southwest, the suffering in the North has continued unabated with Boko Haram and bandits taking over communities.
\nThe current economic hardship resulting to high prices of goods and services has become worrisome to Nigerians including civil servants.
\nSome Nigerians spoke to DAILY POST on the streets of Abuja and expressed their views on the current situation in the country.
\nSome people feel it would take absolutely nothing for Buhari to address Nigerians as Presidents of other countries do in time of emergency to calm things down especially now that the drum of war and disunity is beating across the country.
\nKingsley Edet, a resident of Abuja, believes that the voice of a leader is needed at a time like this to turn things around. According to him, \u201cYes, the President might have been holding meetings with service chiefs and meeting people in Aso Rock but that doesn\u2019t announced his presence. The President should, from time to time address his people even when things are normal. Can\u2019t he for once learn from the US Presidents. What does it take to even go live on social media or go to NTA and address Nigerians?\u201d
\nFor Obiageri Nwofor, a trader, \u201cthe President has become insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. He\u2019s now like a father who watches his family being beaten by a stranger while he sits and watch. Nigeria is burning, poor people no longer buy anything from the market and yet our President doesn\u2019t talk.\u201d
\nOluwadare Osonde, a political analyst, said that \u201cPresident Buhari is compiling all that is happening right now and will address them on May 12. He does not see the need or urgency to address Nigerians at this point. Sorry I have to say this, it seems the President is not allowed to get hold of newspapers or watcb television stations that broadcast the true state of things in the country. So he doesn\u2019t see the need to talk to Nigerians.\u201d
\nDAILY POST reported at the weekend, that Ahmed Gulak, a former Political Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was murdered in Imo State.
\nGulak was shot dead by gunmen in Owerri, between Saturday night and the wee hours of Sunday with the Police accusing Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Eastern Security Network (ESN) fighters of killing the politician.
\nIn another sad development, over 200 students were kidnapped from Islamiyya School at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State at the weekend.
\nOne person was shot dead while another was critically injured during the operation, as DAILY POST reported.
\n(Daily Post)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many Nigerians are baffled by President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s continuous silence in the face of worsening insecurity in the country. So many questions are being raised by Nigerians concerning the current leadership. Some believe that the President has shut his door, gone to bed and is not even aware of the \u2018banging\u2019 on his door as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2611,41,3761],"class_list":["post-358935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bandits","tag-buhari","tag-insecurity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}