Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to resign from office if he is overwhelmed by the series of intractable crisis bedevilling the country.

The leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, in a statement made available to newsmen, condemned the attack by some gunmen on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.

Adebanjo in his statement titled ‘Afenifere sympathises with Ortom over attack’, said “President Buhari’s reaction to the development amounted to shedding crocodile tears”.

He asked the President to “desist from pretending that he is not aware his Fulani kinsmen are the perpetrators of most of the killings the country has witnessed in recent time”.

Adebanjo, recounted that the Buhari‘s government could neither apprehend perpetrators of the 2018 Agatu massacre in Benue state nor do anything to stem attack by herdsmen in the state.

“Rather than help the people of Benue, the President told an embattled Ortom when he approached the Presidency for help in 2018 to go make peace with his neighbours,” he added.

The Afenifere leaderfurther disclosed that “the recent admonition by the defence minister, Bashir Magashi, that Nigerians should begin to defend themselves was instructive, signalling a failed state”.

He said that “the myriad of intractable crisis bedevilling the nation appeared to have overwhelmed the President who should urgently consider resigning”.

The Afenifere leader pointed out that it was time state governors were given full charge of security in their states, affirming that, “No outsider knows the house better than the landlord.”

Pa. Adebanjo also noted that “restructuring still remains the only way out of the doldrums for the nation if disintegration is to be avoided”.