Former governor of Zamfara State, Sani Yerima, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is considering a quick resolution to security challenges including the option of dialogue with bandits terrorizing the Northern part of the country.
Yemira said this on Monday while speaking with State house correspondents after a courtesy visit to
the President at the Presidential Villa Abuja.
The former governor who is advocating that the federal government negotiates with “repentant” bandits says he believes that military force should be a last resort.
He also highlights the success of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s negotiations with militants in the Niger Delta region in 2007 as a precedent for peaceful resolution.
Yerima said the President also asked him to intervene in the power play crisis between the current governor Dauda Lawal, and his predecessor, Bello Matawalle.
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Lawal had accused Matawalle of stealing official vehicles from the Government House before handing over the state’s leadership to him.
He also alleged that the former governor also stole television sets, refrigerators and gas cookers.
All the vehicles seized by the Zamfara State Police Command from the former governor of the state, were returned to him on June 18th after the court, presided over by Justice Aminu Bappah-Aliyu, ordered all security agencies that removed the vehicles from Matawalle’s houses in Gusau and Maradun to return them within 48 hours.
Lawal of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defeated Mr Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 18 March gubernatorial elections.
According to him, President Tinubu asked him to intervene as the father of the state.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
