Nigerians from different have condemned President Muhammadu Buhari over Friday’s abduction of students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
Buhari, according to those who reacted, had failed. They went further to state that they were shocked that the President had not visited the school despite the fact that he is in Katsina State on a weeklong vacation.
The Coalition of Northern Groups; the Middle Belt Forum; the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin; the Pan Niger Delta Forum; and the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, were among those who commented on the abduction of the students and Buhari’s inaction.
Several other Nigerians, on Sunday, also took to the social media to express their displeasure over the President’s failure failing to visit the school.
The Presidency, through the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, however, said that its focus was how to quickly resolve the issue thrown up by the abduction of the students, and not politics.
Shehu said:
As I speak to you, the Minister of Defence and the nation’s service chiefs just left the place.
Our focus is about resolving the issue. Leave us out of politics.
Meanwhile, several Nigerians took to the social media to criticise the President for failing to visit the school and wondered why he would ask the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, to travel to Katsina State from Abuja, when he (Buhari) was currently in the same state on vacation.
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One @SodiqTade tweeted:
My problem right now is Buhari sending delegates to Katsina from Abuja while he is currently in the same state. It takes minutes to get to the school but no let’s waste resources.
Those who asked Goodluck Jonathan to travel miles from Kano down to the incident site in Borno on same day are now making ‘long distance’ excuse for Buhari. Even though the incident site is Katsina and Buhari is in the same Katsina. They said 150 minutes road journey is much for him.”
Similarly, @EhiOziegbe tweeted:
Buhari should resign if he is not well. How can he be in Katsina and a delegation is going there? There is something that is not adding up with all the nonsense happening in the North.”
One @Boufdadi also, tweeted:
Where is Buhari? Why isn’t he showing his face? Why can’t he go and commiserate with the parents of the abducted children? There are things we are not being told. Time will tell us these things.