{"id":16409,"date":"2019-10-06T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16409"},"modified":"2019-10-06T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T15:43:52","slug":"real-reason-president-buhari-kicked-against-retaliation-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/real-reason-president-buhari-kicked-against-retaliation-presidency","title":{"rendered":"Real reason President Buhari kicked against retaliation \u2013 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has revealed why President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammadu_Buhari\">Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> was against retaliation in the heat of the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency said the President thought engagement was a better option.<\/p>\n<p>Garba Shehu, the Buhari\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated in a statement in Abuja, adding that Buhari chose to act wisely instead of taking rash steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen some countries in the sub-region recalled their ambassadors and threatened to cut ties with South Africa following the xenophobic attacks, Nigeria under President Buhari, chose to act wisely by not taking rash actions,\u201d Shehu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were doubts in many quarters on the continent, if the South African state understood early enough, the magnitude of the consequences of attacks on their own nation, and Africa as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for President Buhari, the approach was one of engagement, to assist the government and people of that country to overcome their problem, which by now had become our own, and Africa\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammadu_Buhari\">Buhari<\/a> set the right tone by sending a Special Envoy, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), to obtain first hand facts concerning the condition of Nigerians and to sensitize the South African leadership on the concerns of Nigeria and of the continent as well the implications of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving a brief from the envoy, the President decided to proceed with an earlier planned visit, rather than abort it as some had suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s visit to South Africa, he said, was an opportunity to put Nigeria\/South Africa relations on a fast track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat if the two largest economies can come closer and work together, they can help one another, and the continent at large to overcome the many problems confronting them. Where there is development, prosperity and jobs among Africans, the backward habits as embarrassingly witnessed in South Africa and reprisal attacks, including Nigeria, would have been avoided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari did not, therefore, see \u201can eye for an eye\u201d or a tit-for-tat as a solution.(\u2020In appreciation of this approach, many in African leadership, including the African Union have sent messages to the President, thanking him for his enlightened leadership and wisdom in dealing with the matter, and in particular for speaking for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArising from their discussions, both leaders condemned xenophobic violence and the reprisals. A solution to the typical violence, in their various pronouncements, lies in poverty eradication, jobs creation, crime prevention, observance of rule of law and lawful migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two Presidents directed their Foreign Affairs Ministers to give practical expression to the Early Warning Mechanism for prevention and monitoring platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosely linked to this is the issue of the large number of Nigerians incarcerated in South African prisons, their number still undetermined, and lack of communication from the authorities regarding the process and the status of these arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has revealed why President Muhammadu Buhari was against retaliation in the heat of the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. The Presidency said the President thought engagement was a better option. Garba Shehu, the Buhari\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated in a statement in Abuja, adding that Buhari chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,962,158],"class_list":["post-16409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-national-intelligence-agency","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Real reason President Buhari kicked against retaliation \u2013 Presidency - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/real-reason-president-buhari-kicked-against-retaliation-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Real reason President Buhari kicked against retaliation \u2013 Presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presidency has revealed why President Muhammadu Buhari was against retaliation in the heat of the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. 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