The Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum David Umahi has accused desperate politicians of aligning with bandits to stabilise Nigeria.
Umahi said this on Tuesday after a virtual meeting with the five governors of the south-east region at the government house, Abakaliki.
According to him: “The situation is being heightened by the activities of very desperate politicians, this time irrespective of party affiliations.
“There are so many desperate politicians in all the political parties that are so desperate for power and they have aligned with some bandits in the southeast to destabilise the nation.”
The Governor who said the five southeast states dissociated themselves from a bi-partisan meeting convened by some stakeholders from the region on the security situation, urged them to instead speak out and condemn killings within their domain.
Umahi also seized the occasion to clarify the viral video making the rounds about an alleged expulsion of a Fulani pastoral community from an area in Ebonyi.
He described the video as fake and ordered security agencies to investigate its source and arrest the circulators.
He said: “Politicians, as we have intelligence gathering, went to put a voice and said it is the Igbos that are chasing away the herdsmen from Ebonyi state.
“Such a video went very wide and was causing panic in other parts of the country. That was very much uncalled for because we also have over 11 million of our people living in the north.
