By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to step up to the leadership table in view of the prevailing national circumstance.
The governors said the present crisis in Nigeria requires a comprehensive overhaul of government structure.
The admonition came on Thursday through the Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukeman, with the governors emphasising that the President, owed it a duty to restore peace in the country.
In the statement entitled: Save Nigeria for APC to Command Moral and Electoral Credibility… A Wakeup Call to all our Leaders, in Abuja, the governors said a period of crisis was always the test of leadership, adding that the current crisis was already consuming precious lives of Nigerians apart from the destruction of property and assets of citizens and government.
“Unfortunately, responses from our political leaders especially at Federal level are below public expectation. If all the agencies of government and political appointees managing these agencies have handled their responsibilities as is expected, this crisis would have been averted.
“In fact, the pressure on President Buhari’s direct intervention will not have been the case. The crisis produced by the #EndSARS protest highlight the need for the President to urgently take steps to overhaul the machinery of government if our democracy and our government is to be able to meet the expectation of citizens.
“It is the constitutional prerogative of the President to determine the best strategy and the details of governmental reforms aimed at overhauling the machinery of government to make them more effective in responding to the democratic needs of Nigerians.
“It is important for the regime and Nigerian leaders especially those in the All Progressives Congress to set aside their differences and rise up to the occasion and hasten intervention through appropriate civic engagement across every part of the country to ensure restoration of peace in the country,” the statement said.