Dr Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, has challenged northern leaders
to support the Federal Government in finding lasting solutions to the incessant
killings in the region.
Senator
Saraki made the call on Wednesday while addressing a delegation of the Northern
Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly who visited him at the National Assembly.
He
explained that peace and unity are essential to achieving the overall
development of the country, and wants political leaders to consider dialogue as
an option to solving the country’s security challenges.
“It
is clear that this country now needs us to really address some of these issues.
There’s no society that can be waking up every day with the kind of killings
that we are seeing going on. There must be something wrong somewhere, that we
must have to address.
“There
must be things that we must also do to bring co-existence and to bring unity,”
he stressed.
The
chairman of the group and leader of the delegation, Tanko Yakasai, however,
noted that the northern leaders are working to formulate methods of preventing
and resolving conflicts in the region.
He
said: “The main objective of the organisation is to promote the well-being of
our people and together with other patriotic Nigerians to evolve a national
blueprint that will address various problems confronting our nation.”
He
also noted that “members of this organisation like other Nigerians are free to
hold different opinions or make their preferred choices without hindrance from
the Assembly.
“Although
the Assembly is politically initiated, it has decided to be non-partisan. The
Assembly is not a prelude to the formation of a political party,” he stated.
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