Many Nigerians have condemned President Buhari’s planned trip to Bamako in Mali for peacekeeping mission on Thursday.
This comes few hours after the announcement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina that he would be going to Bamako, the Malian capital.
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He said;
President Muhammadu Buhari will Thursday depart for Bamako, Republic of Mali on a one-day visit, following the briefing by the ECOWAS Special Envoy to the country, former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Nigerian President and some ECOWAS leaders led by the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the sub-regional organisation, President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic, agreed to meet in Mali to engage in further consultations towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country.
Following the disclosure, many Nigerians have since taken to social media to fault the move, urging the President to attend to insurgency and banditry in the country instead.
See some reactions from Nigerians on Twitter below;
He can’t step out to meet his fellow citizens that are butchered daily, over fears of contracting covid 19, yet he travels to mali because of their political tensions supersede the poverty and downward trail ravaging his country!
— Meerah (@fagan001) July 22, 2020
Buhari has never visited Southern Kaduna to condole with victims of the attack nor on a peace mission and here his travelling to a foreign country. Charity begins at home.
— Alist (@ighodey) July 22, 2020
The business has resumed. After Mali will be Sudan, Libya and Senegal. Before travelling out of the Continent
— Emmanuel Johnny🌈🎶 (@Godtreasure301) July 22, 2020
So the president can travel out to force the Malian into peace accord but his own subjects are being slaughtered in Nigeria.
Our leaders are hypocrites and shameless— OracleGodfather (@Oracle_GF) July 22, 2020
Ogar, come back and fix your house. Boko Haram and bandits are killing your people and you are traveling. Besides, it’s you people’s incessant travel that brought covid-19 to our “once-behoved-country”.
— Onah (@jamesonah1) July 22, 2020
Intervention kwa but people are being killed like chicken in southern kaduna and BH is having a fill day here.
Tueh.
— Ade👑ismyname (@Kingmikkky_bobo) July 22, 2020
But the same country will put there citizen on lock down my God have mercy on all Nigeria leaders
— Ben Kingsley (@BenKing600) July 22, 2020
With all the pressing issues of corruption and terrorism . misplaced priority . SMH
— Ajila Ayoola (@_ajila_) July 22, 2020
@MBuhari Baba enjoy your retirement, let the docile youth continue to rant on online.
— Herbs Elix (@HerbsElix) July 22, 2020
As if he has settled his own problem in the country
— Vicben (@itsvicben) July 22, 2020
Before now, Buhari had travelled out of the country twice in 2020, first to the United Kingdom on January 17 and to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on February 7.
