President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held separate meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Anglican bishops on the state of the nation.
Conflicts herdsmen and farmers have raised security concerns, further worsened by renewed militancy in the Niger Delta and agitations by pro-Biafra protesters.
Buhari met Obasanjo behind closed doors at the presidential villa shortly after arriving in company with his friend, Johnson Fasawe, at 12:30pm.
This was Obasanjo’s third visit to the villa, and he refused to take questions after the meeting.
Although the details were not made public, TheCable understands that it was part of consultations being made by Buhari over the political tensions in the country.
Obasanjo was president from 1999 to 2007, during which he faced similar security challenges in the south-south and south-east.
Buhari later met with some Anglican bishops who urged him to end the menace of the herdsmen and pipeline vandalism in the country.
Nicholas Okoh, primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), led the clerics.
“We told him (Buhari) many things but part of it is that we are all looking for solution to issues of the herdsmen, issue of vandalism on security in one way or the other,” Okoh said.
“This is because the people are asking us and we want to have explanation for the people whom we lead.”
Okoh said Buhari’s response were satisfactory and “very favourable”.
”He gave us detailed explanations of what he is doing to ensure that these things are solved. So, we have hope, we have message for our people,” he said.
-TheCable
