Amotekun: Southwest Govs Vows Not To Bow To Pressure

The Southwest governors have vowed not to bow to pressure over the joint security outfit known as Amotekun.

Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Akeredolu in a statement in Akure by his Information and Orientation Commissioner, Donald Ojogo said, “ethnicizing the current situation is even more unhelpful. There should be no reason for such.

“This is more so that the Amotekun scheme is not targeted at any non-South West ethnic group just as its benefits are to be reaped by all Nigerians irrespective of ethnic or religious placements. Amotekun was initiated to complement the efforts of the conventional internal security agencies that appear to have been hampered by the absence of local intelligence gathering architecture. Put simply, Amotekun when fully operational, will serve the purposes of local information and intelligence gathering for processing and usage by the conventional security agencies.

“Amotekun is therefore, merely supportive and not a replacement for the Nation’s security agencies. The concerns expressed by individuals, agencies of government and several stakeholders are noted without bias.

“Where possible, the inexorable efforts of the South West governors will be deepened through relentless interface. On-going discourse on the issue of Amotekun must not be misguidedly used as a platform to ventilate personal or group views aimed at oiling primordial sentiments and grievances.

“The South West governors will not capitulate to blackmail either from within or outside the region but are ready to pursue the Amotekun security scheme through all permissible political and legal means. Under circumstances of the nature of Amotekun, the choices are numerous.

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“They range from prevarication and pretense; partisanship and sycophancy as well as moderate and complementary steps not inimical to the corporate existence of our Nation Nigeria. The South West governors have chosen the later. In unequivocal terms too, each of the choices has a consequence, if not consequences.

“Unfortunately, the steps of South West governors have unwittingly, had to contend with forces of conspiratorial silence and unpretentious moves of sabotage. Each has a right to choices; but certainly, no one individual can circumvent the consequences of whatever choices he or she makes in life.”