Justice key to ending agitations in Nigeria – PGF DG

Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Mohammed Lukman has said ensuring fairness and justice to all the six geo-political zones remain the key to ending agitations in the country.

Lukman in a statement on Sunday, titled, “Cries for Justice: Sasha and the Burden of Political Leadership” said political leaders should take significant steps at ensuring the unity and peaceful co-existence among the various eithnic groups.

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He appealed to APC leaders to be convening emergency meetings that will strengthen the process of engendering sustained peaceful co-existence in the country.

“Instead of hating each other, can our leaders take steps to begin to push us to love each other? The need to guarantee justice at all times, irrespective of who is affected is about the only route for peaceful co-existence in the country. Once that is compromised, the foundation of our democracy will be eroded.

“The burden facing our political leaders is to begin to take every necessary step to move our people and our nation from all parts of the country towards ensuring fairness in every part of the country.

“The basis of fairness must be such that to love ourselves, we must love others. Once we can’t guarantee fairness, we should delete the word love in our vocabulary. Therefore, we must demand that our political leaders should show love to themselves by ensuring fair conduct of all citizens as a basis for citizens’ love to leaders and the nation.

“At a time when the issue of banditry and criminal conducts of individuals in the guise of herdsmen dominated public discussion in the country, events in Sasha have further inflamed ethnic tension in the country. All the debate now is no longer about the bad conduct of the tomatoes’ carrier but about Hausa/Fulanis vs Yorubas,”he said.