The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says President Muhammadu Buhari is dealing with a very difficult situation in view of the challenges of killings, kidnappings, inter-ethnic clashes across the country.
Gbajabiamila said this while fielding questions from State House reporters after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The speaker said the discussion focused on security, economy, social and political matters.
He, however, declined to reveal the details of discussion on security, saying: “We’ll always speak about security because that’s number one. We speak about the security situation, we speak about the economy, will speak about the politics of it all and at least he has a listening ear. We proffer ideas, you know, he tells us his own views, and we come to some consensus, one way or the other.
“Some of these things, you cannot be privy to them for now. We’re still working on a way out. All I’ll always say, I say it all the time, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. The President is dealing with a very, very difficult situation and he’s as passionate as anybody else to bring it to closure and we’re here to help him bring it to closure.”
Asked to speak on his suggestions to the President as regards the fight against insurgency in this country, he said: “You’re aware that the House of Representatives, some time ago, passed a resolution and we set up an adhoc committee, a special adhoc committee, which involves all principal officers and 30 other members of the house and we’re going to start that process looking at the different solutions and we’ll be bringing the reports to Mr. President. He’s fully aware of it and he’s opened to anything and everything. That’ll help us in coming to a resolution in this matter.”
Gbajabiamila, while speaking on what Nigerians should know about his latest engagement with Buhari, said: “It’s the usual normal engagement. I came to see him. I haven’t seen him in a little while. I came to see him to exchange ideas, rub minds together as to where we’re as a country, rub minds together politically, economically, socially, which is a continuous engagement for four years. That’s all this was all about.”
