Gbajabiamila Meets Buhari, Says Nigerians Must Embrace Dialogue

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• The speaker stated this when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.

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The Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says all Nigerians must embrace dialogue to resolve the lingering controversy that exists among them.

He maintained that divisions along ethnic or regional divides must seize, for peace to reign.

He said: “Everybody just have to come to the table and discuss and come to an amicable resolution which I’m sure we will.

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”I don’t think any ethnic group should lord it over any ethnic group, the South West should not lord it over the North, the North should not lord it over the South.

”We should respect each other’s trade, geographical space, history, culture and more importantly the issue of crime, murder, all those things should be completely jettisoned.

”But more importantly, we all have to sit on the table and discuss this matter and look for the way forward. I think everybody is willing to do that.

”From the National Assembly, solutions will come from talking.

”I believe that now that we are about to start work on Tuesday, I know these issues will come up and adequate and proper legislation that will address the issue frontally and in the best interest of the country, and all nations that make up the nation, such legislation will be put in place,” he said.

On the recent appointment of Service Chiefs, the speaker said the National Assembly was in support of the president’s decision to effect changes in the nation’s security architecture.

According to him, the National Assembly will make the working environment suitable for the new service chiefs to operate efficiently.

“Everything that is needed, we are all in this today. The National Assembly will not in any way put hurdles before the Service Chiefs.

”We will make the working environment suitable for them to be able to discharge their responsibilities very efficiently,” he said.