The Presidency has reacted to comments made by Professor Wole Soyinka
in which he called on Nigerians to defend themselves in the heat of
prevailing security challenges.
Speaking about the call during his appearance on Politics Today, the
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi
Adesina, noted that the Federal Government would review the suggestion
from the Nobel Laureate.
“What Professor Soyinka has said can just be one of the proffered
solutions which will be looked out. I have spoken about the nine
governors’ committee headed by Professor (Yemi) Osinbajo who is the Vice
President of the country” he said.
Soyinka told journalists in Lagos that the phenomenon of herdsmen and
farmers clashes was not new, but an issue that has graduated to an
alarming state in the last eight years.
According to Femi Adesina, the issue of herdsmen and farmers crisis
is a national emergency that “determines to be interrogated from
different sides. There is a security apparatus in the country which is
working to secure the country,” Adesina insisted.
“Yes, there are
challenges, but that apparatus is rising to those challenges. I would
not agree with you that it is failing.”
The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has come under
severe criticisms in recent times over Nigeria’s security among other
issues.