Second Republic Senator and former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Professor Iyorwuese Hagher, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of promoting genocide on account of his administration's treatment of the murderous Fulani herdsmen with kid gloves.

He also advised the President against seeking a second term.

Professor Hagher's position was made known in a open letter to the President. Dated 5 January, the letter opened with a blunt refusal to wish President Buhari a happy new year, with the former envoy saying doing otherwise will mark him out as a hypocrite.

Professor Hagher, an indigene of Benue State, where the latest episode of herdsmen's brutality resulted in numerous deaths, said nobody in the state is happy in the new year.

"Our citizens did not have a happy new 2018. Genocide on citizens of Nigeria has escalated in earnest in Benue State. This genocide has turned their happiness to nightmare and death," wrote Professor Hagher.


Professor Iyorwuese Hagher
While apologising for making the Let me also apologize for making letter public, the former envoy said he had to do so because the country, Benue State especially, is in an emergency situation. The former envoy noted that President Buhari had previously ignored his advice in a private memorandum dated 30 July 2016.

"I had warned you of the possibility of a horrendous genocide in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, and Southern Adamawa States. I asked you to be proactive and stop the genocide that has been ongoing, but which would burst out in the open and shock the world within 18 months. Your office replied my letter on September, 28th 2016, and the reply was couriered to me in the United States, thanking me 'immensely' and giving me the assurances that the advice would be heeded," recalled the Second Republic senator.

He lamented that the current situation is an evidence that President Buhari's government took no step to avert what he predicted 17 months ago. "The nomadic terrorists have finally accelerated the ethnic cleansing in Benue State. They have strategically moved against the Tiv, the largest minority ethnicity in northern Nigeria. These perpetrators believe that if they can ethnic- cleanse the Tiv, then nobody can stand in their way to possess the land and carve a new geo-polity and demography for the middle-belt," claimed Professor Hagher.

That this has happened unimpeded, he added, is a proof that President Buhari has betrayed his your campaign promise to "always act in time and not allow problems to irresponsibly fester’’.
"In allowing the Benue genocide to take place, your government has acted irresponsibly and has allowed problems to fester and failed to act on time. You have also failed to lead from the front, giving the impression that centrifugal forces around you are dictating vicious anti-people agenda," he told the President.

Professor Hagher contended that the security of lives and property is more important than the vaunted war against corruption.

"The protection of lives of citizens is the most sacred responsibility of the state and your presidency. Your government has failed woefully in this regard. Mr President, there is no greater corruption than the government looking the other way while the strong bullies and kills the weak with impunity and pleasure," stated the Second Republic senator.

He further stated that the President's desire to rid the country of corruption has made him ignore nation building, thereby leaving the country divided. Professor Hagher said the President has failed his immediate Northern constituency by his inability, failure or lack of political will to end the region's poverty through measures that enhance school enrolment, promote girl-child education, and revive dead industries.

"You became Nigeria’s president on the altar of northern unity when the northern minorities abandoned former President Goodluck Jonathan to vote for you. You have now desecrated that altar. By refusing to arrest those that brutally butchered defenceless innocent Benue women and children, you have imperiled northern unity and taken sides with evil," Professor Hagher raged.

He equally raged that President Buhari's lack of vision and capacity to provide development and a political culture of integrity entitles him to pity and prayers, but not support for a second term.

While admitting that the President still has many admirers, Professor Hagher said what happened in Benue State has put a huge question mark on his capacity to lead a plural modern state. "Is there rule of law in this country? Why does the Miyetti Allah act with so much impunity? Is this because this terrorist group claims you as their life patron? Do not accept the clamour of those, who for their personal political reasons, urge you to contest in the 2019 election to be a second term president. Mr. President, please rise above the impression being given that you are just another power-obsessed and hungry politician. Step aside and open the political space for another person to continue your war against corruption with a more comprehensive development programme that Nigeria needs and deserves," said Professor Hagher.

He called on the President to spend the remaining part of his tenure to modernize infrastructure, and attempt to banish poverty, adding that while the All Progressives Congress campaigns for the 2019 general elections, President Buhari should take a sabbatical from partisanship to build national unity, good governance, concentrate on getting rid of Boko Haram and the herdsmen.

"After all, great people are not great for winning elections. Rather, they are known to be great by the legacy they leave behind. With what legacy do you wish the country to remember you for? It is unfortunate that family members of those that were hacked to death will remember you as the genocide president," the Second Republic senator declared.


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Not just a genocide promoter, he's a blood sucking demon. We have suffered in this country. Before his election, he threatened us with monkeys and baboons being soaked in blood if he looses election. Now some people out of fear of loosing their investments in the north if the almajeris start running riot when their lord looses election voted this vampire. What do we get in return? Fowls and goats have been soaked in the same blood.
He should go ahead and contest. I think omenkalives, sarrki, ngeneukwenu and all the nairaland resident BMC Zon-Bs are deceiving him that he will win. We shall see by 2019

...and when the time is right, justice will come in swift wings

Buhari is on a mission


By the time he is through
There will be no minority tribe in Nigeria

Pa Buhari should just do us a favour and resign.

The truth is if you have not believe this prophecy "As they campaign
vigorously for elections, you
would think, they are coming
to grow the economy,
enthrone justice, breed unity
and tolerance, love for one
another. No, they are coming
to elevate Hausa-Fulani
supremacy, to reposition the
security agencies by sacking
all competent hands and
replace them with their
kinsmen to drive their ethnic
domination,
the Fulani herdsmen will be
armed and encouraged to
slaughter us with impunity,
and their masters will protect
them. They are coming to
ensure that my people are
enslaved forever. Those who
do not, believe me, will soon
see it happen before their
eyes" then your mumu never do.

You can brand him anything,
This former ambassador is just saying thrash, playing politics with people's life, that buhari should not seek second term because of this thrash.that he should step aside for another to continued from him.
So because they is a long time problem that we are all looking for solution to,
Instead of this political criminal to tell us the way forward, he is insulting and politicising every problem that has be there before this government

Buhari is a well known ethnic bigot from time immemorial.

The Christians in the north should wake up, they are buhari's target. How the chief financer of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria hasn't condemned the attack, sultan of sokoto

Jesusloveyou:
You can brand him anything

Irredeemable buhari cow

He is probably one of those that campaigned vigorously for Buhari.

Ride on the back of the tiger, and it would turn round to eat you!

zombieTRACKER:
Buhari is on a mission


By the time he is through
There will be no minority tribe in Nigeria

every one will now be majority

Jesusloveyou:
every one will now be majority

Exactly
By depleting their numbers on a daily basis
Rendering them homeless and striking them with poverty

NORSIYK:
The Christians in the north should wake up, they are buhari's target. How the chief financer of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria hasn't condemned the attack, sultan of sokoto

and your ineffectual buffoon is a patron and financial of herdsmen, boko haram and idiotic pigs of Biafra.

Jesusloveyou:
and your ineffectual buffoon is a patron and financial of herdsmen, boko haram and idiotic pigs of Biafra.

And who told you that GEJ is in aso rock
This is buhari change government in action
Talk about it

I have warned you about this moniker
It doesn't fit your contributions on the thread

Sending police to tackle herdsmen while setting the army after harmless protesters says many things