President Bola Tinubu has described himself as a “very stubborn politician” whose rivals tried to unseat him through insecurity.
“I have stood firm despite criticisms over insecurity, reports Daily Trust.President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said this last night at the Presidential Villa in Abuja while receiving stakeholders from Plateau State led by Governor Caleb Muftwang.
“You’re playing into the hands of agents, including my own enemies, who want to use insecurity to get rid of me. But I am a very stubborn politician. I just won’t go. “I will run again,” he declared.
Once those behind or funding the violence are discovered, the federal government will respond, the president added.
“If you identify and you know the name of the troublemakers, agents or provocateurs who want to continue killing or instigate killing, let us know.
“We will use the instrument of office to deal with them, Tinubu said.
He said security services would not hesitate to move against such criminals provided reliable intelligence is made available and added that the cycle of violence in the state must be halted.
Tinubu also backed a newly created peace committee including former governors of Plateau, directed them to operate as a unified body to analyze existing white papers on past conflicts and submit consolidated recommendations for implementation.
Call each other. Ignore the Governor’s Committee or include them if you must. Take the white paper, talk through it amongst yourselves and agree to implement it.
If the ones you have chosen before now are not working you have to combine and amend membership.”
“Forget the committees you told me about, if it ain’t working, it ain’t working. “Think of this group as the committee until we get a permanent solution,” he continued.
The meeting follows a high-level engagement with the President following the deaths of Angwa Rukuba earlier this month.
Tinubu who visited the state had meetings with some stakeholders, all in attempts to find sustainable solution.
Former governor Simon Lalong had advised that the president should hold a closed door meeting with certain key past and present leaders of the state, including former governors and traditional rulers, to talk freely and commit themselves collectively to ending the bloodshed.
“The answer to the Plateau problem is with the people. We are ready for that and will give the answer,” he had stated.
“I saw everything. “We were in an emergency situation and we got out of it. We thought it was over but it is rearing its head again.
“If you bring all of us together, Jang, Dariye, Lalong, Mutfwang and the traditional rulers, you may find a lasting solution because we all have gone through it,” he remarked.
“A meeting of this nature with the President in Abuja will give us the opportunity to tell ourselves the truth to have a firm commitment to peace,” Lalong said.
“We have to reach a point whereby everybody agrees that there will be no more blood on Plateau,” he emphasized, bemoaning the continuous loss of innocent life.
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