The South-South Solidarity Forum has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to calls for the restructuring of the country.

Prominent Nigerians, including a former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar had expressed their support for restructuring.

At a stakeholders’ meeting on Friday in Calabar, Cross River State, the forum’s National President, Dr. Bassey Umoh, called on Buhari not to ignore the call because of “numerous” ethnic and religious tensions in the country.

Umoh also said it was provocative to link former President Goodluck Jonathan to the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers.

He said, “The rising tension in the past one year and the worrisome militancy in the Niger Delta region as well as the rampaging Fulani herdsmen and the new face of Boko Haram, among others, are not issues that should be ignored.....Continue Reading @
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