A former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada and Second Republic senator, Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his lukewarm attitude to the killings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country.
Hagher, in a phone interview with one of our correspondents on Saturday, said the President did not care about the lives of ordinary Nigerians, insisting that “the President has no conscience.”
The former Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico confirmed that he authored a scathing letter to Buhari in which he accused him of promoting genocide in Benue.
The retired diplomat described the bloodshed in Benue state as calculated genocide aimed at dispossessing the people of their land, noting that the Federal Government had adjusted the state boundary several times.
Hagher, who is the President, African Leadership Institute, Ohio, United States, said, “Everything I stated in that letter is true and I believe this is calculated genocide.”
The former senator also accused the Buhari administration of perpetrating the worst form of corruption by ignoring the killings of citizens, without saying anything about it.
The playwright observed that Buhari had succeeded in raising the nation’s consciousness about the evil of corruption, noting that he should not be insisting on a second term when he has not succeeded in his first term.
