President Muhammadu Buhari has met on Sunday with the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on the escalating security crisis in the South East geo-political zone.
The meeting was held at the Presidential Vlla in Abuja. Speaking with State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Ngige said they have made some proposals to the president on how to resolve the security problems in the South East based on the yearnings of the people. “And we are following up with dialogue which at the end of the day is what will happen. We have to talk, we have to discuss….The Minister of Defence, Minister of Interior and the Service Chiefs were in Enugu earlier last Saturday and we are going to do follow-up meetings on that again starting from tomorrow,” Ngige said.
He added that they briefed the President and he accepted that dialogue is the way to go in all these. “Like I keep on saying there is a very thin line between perception and reality, so certain things should be done, at least to assuage the feelings of the people in the area and make them not to feel unwanted so that area was also discussed,” he said.