Gov Yahya Bello blasts Buhari's ill-wishers, labels them enemies of Nigeria

Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, yesterday described those propagating death rumours about President Muhammadu Buhari as “the real enemies of Nigeria.”

Bello, who stated this through a message to the Apapo Omo Yagba Congress held at Isanlu over the weekend, through his Director-General on Media and Publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, said the nation “doesn’t have derive any benefit from such evil wishes against the President.”

He said: “The emergence of President Buhari at this critical period of our nation’s economy is a big blessing; the President has confronted the recession in the nation with all the deserved seriousness to lift the country off the woods.

“Every leader is installed by the Almighty Allah to help humanity and advance the wishes of God over the people. The Holy Books urge us to pray for our leaders.

The injunction is for our benefit because when leaders act right, the people will reap the fruits.

“Wishing a person dead because of political, ethnic or religious difference is a sin and I will urge all those who wished the President dead to seek for forgiveness from God.

“All of us must face the current realities. The President has come out to say he is hearing the voices of the people. We have a President who will stake everything to bring us back to reckoning. The grandiose corruption of the past is the reason we are suffering today. But the President is not complaining but taking the right steps to help our nation.”