The Convener of the National Peace advisers, initiative of the world peace organization and resident country director of diplomatic mission peace and prosperity, professor Olumuyiwa Babalola, has called on President Bola Tinubu-led administration not to use military force to restore constitutional government in junta controlled Niger Republic.
Babalola in a statement he made available to News Band, reiterated that only diplomatic and political mechanisms can be used to address the political face-off.
He called on President Bola Tinubu to adopt the aforementioned channels to save Nigerians.
The statement reads, “The recent approval sought by the president from the Senate to send the Nigerian Military to Niger to restore democratic rule in the country must be critically looked into.
“It is only diplomatic and political mechanisms can be used to address the situation. ”
Babalola said that the recent unveiling ceremony of the special advisers on Peace Matters to assist the Federal and Local levels of the government in Nigeria supported by the World Peace Programme for Sustainable Development Network will allow Nigerians to preach, practice, and live in peace wherever they find themselves in a way that would compliment the government’s efforts to achieve a lasting peace for the country.
“This is because, already, we are having the problem of insecurity ranging from banditry and kidnapping to farmers, herders’ feud across the country, as well as insurgency in the North, militancy in the Niger Delta, and political violence in the South East, had left the country backward in terms of national and social-economic developments.
“We believe that lasting peace can only be achieved through peace initiatives and mechanisms with a genuine human approach. Hence, the invention of the idea of Special Advisers on peace matters, as it’s the first of its kind in Nigeria and Africa at large, to assist the government in securing sustainable peace at Federal, States and Local levels for national unity and growth” the statement added.
