Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State on Thursday, has called for international partnerships to tackle the rising levels of insecurity in Nigeria, maintaining that the situation is beyond President Muhammadu Buhari.
While featuring on Channels Sunrise Daily, He said “It is because people don’t understand the international dimension of this security challenge that they dismiss it as if it is a Nigerian or leadership issue.”
“It is a global issue with the focus on keeping Nigeria unstable and so you need some international strategic and security connection to actually address the issue. It is far beyond the capacity of the President of Nigeria.”
He explained further that it is because of the involvement of terrorist groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP which now have international links to target Nigeria’s mineral resources
“President Muhammadu Buhari met a challenging situation, held it, and has been able to pull back the terrorist attacks and you judge him based on one occasional incident,” the Governor explained.
Ayade said Buhari made a lot of improvement but people are not noticing it because “it is the normal human nature to celebrate one isolated incident”.
