Killings: Governors embarking on loyalty visits to Buhari at the expense of their states – Shehu Sani

…Urges Buhari to ban such visits 

Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani on Saturday condemned some state governors for embarking on loyalty visits to President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock at the expense of the security of lives and properties of residents in their respective states.

The outspoken lawmaker therefore urged President Buhari to henceforth ban the governors from embarking on such visits.

Sani made this known in a statement on Saturday.

His comments came as some state governors are being criticised for visiting Aso Villa even in the midst of violent crisis rocking their states.

Recall that some some APC governors also on Friday stormed the Daura home of President Buhari on a ‘solidarity visit’.

Sani said the new ‘political culture’ of governors visiting the villa, while their states are in crisis, is political and should be banned.

“The new sycophantic political culture of Governors leaving their duty posts, in their respective states, almost on a daily basis to climb the Rock of Aso in order to pledge loyalty, leave their citizens in the hands of moribund and powerless deputy governors and at the mercy of well-armed killers.

“President Buhari must ban state Governors from the daily ritual of visiting the villa while their homes burn,” he said.

Sani also lashed at northern leaders for their ‘cowardice’ in the face of the crisis.

“The silence and cowardice of the Northern political elites to the mass killings going on in the North is out of fear that they can be labelled or blackmailed as being anti Government,” he said.

He bemoaned the current security situation in the country, ”where lives are no longer cherished.”

“We have become a nation in perpetual mourning and ceaseless funeral mass. In Nigeria today, blood is becoming cheaper than water and petrol. The most tragic of all tragedies is when tragedy becomes a routine in our daily lives.”