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VOX POPULI SACRUM

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30, 2017

ISSN: 2545-5869

•Nigerians commend, criticise President’s ‘hardline’ speech •Nigeria’s unity is negotiable, say Dr. Egonte, others

‘...Will address infrastructure deficiency’

From TONY AILEMEN (Abuja), BONIFACE OKORO (Umuahia), NATH OMAME (PH), COLLINS UGHALAA (Owerri), JONATHAN AWANYAI (Asaba) and CHRISTIAN EZE (Yenagoa)

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s if to make good his threat to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers undermining the “settled, non-negotiable” unity of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered troops to be moved to the South East and other “trouble spots” in the country. The indication to this effect emerged on Tuesday when the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olorunishaki spoke with State House Correspondents shortly after the Service Chiefs met with the President in his official residence. Speaking on security in the South East and the alleged secret army of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, the Army Chief said all identified security threats were treated one after the other--from terrorism to kidnapping, herdsmen/farmers clash, to secessionist agitations in the South East and any other part of the country. The deployment of troops to the South East in peacetime Nigeria is coming barely two days after President Buhari, back in the country after a three-month medical vacation in Europe, made a national radio and television broadcast that was remarkable for its combativeness. In the barely 5-minute broadcast, the President had declared: “In the course of my stay in the United Kingdom, I have been kept in daily touch with events at home. Nigerians are robust and lively in discussing their affairs, but I was distressed to no-

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•Vice President Osinbajo welcoming President Buhari from his medical vacation in London

resident Muhammadu Buhari will ensure that infrastructure deficiency in the South East is addressed before the end of his tenure, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President has said. Adesina stated this while receiving a coalition of southeast youths who stormed the Aso Rock Villa gate to declare support for Buhari, on Tuesday. According to him: “The roads in the region will be fixed, the second Niger Bridge will be done, everything, infrastructure, positions, offices, all that the centre needs to do for the region, the South East region will get its own fair share.” “On behalf of President Muhammadu Okechukwu Buhari, I receive this letter and I say thank you all,” Adesian added He stated that the fact that a coalition from the South East region has come to mount this solidarity rally for him is very significant because “some mischief makers always say that the South East region is not with the President; that is not true.” He noted that South Easterners have always supported the President adding that “ in the South East region that he was given the name Okechukwu during the campaign, it was in the South East in Abia precisely that Eze Ikonne gave him a traditional title. So, we know that every part of this country approves the leadership of President Muhammadu Okechukwu Buhari”

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