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Nigeria Sliding into Danger under your Leadership, Agoro Tells Buhari

- Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan

Former Presidenti­al candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as the country is sliding into danger zone of anarchy under his administra­tion.

Agoro while speaking with journalist­s at the Oyo State National Union of Journalist­s (NUJ) Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan, stressed that the body language of President Buhari is posing threat to the national security and the national unity.

He said, “The awry, terrifying and ugly developing political situations all over the nationhood of Nigeria are clear signals of dangers ahead,” adding, “the saddening part of the whole issue will be found in the evidencing fact of leadership absence.”

The former national chairman of NAC, who expressed displeasur­e on the recent attack on the personalit­y of the wife of the president, Aisha as worrisome and disturbing, insisted that the First Lady deserved respect and honour from all Nigerians irrespecti­ve of their position.

According to him, “The only wife that was sworn-in with the president, Aisha Buhari was almost killed and nothinghap­pens.WhywillMr.President equate his wife with a relation of his? Buhari opens his eyes and allowed his wife to be rubbished. There was a gun shot at the Villa which tells us that somebody was after the life of Mr. President. It should be a thing of concern to us.

“After that subsided, bandits unleashed terror on the state of Mr. President to the extent that he cannot visit his home town. Buhari is not alive to his responsibi­lities. This is

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