As Nigeria grapples with dire security challenges, a Northern group under the aegis of Arewa Professional Forum (APF), has expressed concern over what it described as the worsening state of insecurity in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve the Service Chiefs of their positions.
The group, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja after its 3rd annual meeting held in Kaduna, urged President Buhari to see reason with the majority of Nigerians who are of the view that the nation’s top security heads be relinquished of their positions and fresh hands and ideas injected for positive results in the security maintenance.
In other statement signed by its National Coordinator, Dr Ibrahim Nasir, the group reminded the president that in democracy, the voice of the majority prevails, saying the recent resolution of both chambers of the National Assembly that he replaced the Service Chiefs, was the view of the majority of Nigerians given that the parliament was a representation of the people.
The APF stated that the Service Chiefs had run out of ideas to effectively tackle the country’s security crises, and should be allowed to take their leave.
The organization while insisting that the President that should listen to what it called “the voice of the people” by reorganizing the security architecture of the country, said: “The time has come when the entire country expects new ideas, philosophy and method in the fight against insurgency in the country.”