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President Muhammadu Buhari is about to take part within the United Nations Common Meeting’s 76th Session in the US, amidst insecurity and gross human rights underneath his administration.

Pressinformant gathered that the President will depart Abuja on Sunday, September 19 to attend the convention which shall be declared open on Tuesday, September 14.

The convention will finish on September 27, 2021.

“The group going with him (Buhari) to the USA for the United Nations Common Meeting leaves on Tuesday. The President will go away Abuja subsequent Sunday to affix them,” a presidential supply informed SaharaReporters.

Pressinformant had earlier within the month reported how Buhari’s Chief of Workers, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, amongst different officers, travelled to the US to infiltrate the ranks of Nigeria’s self-determination teams, which earlier introduced that they’d storm the UN Meeting with calls for for a referendum.

A high supply had stated that whereas Buhari can be attending the UN Meeting, the entourage led by Gambari, who’s a diplomat and former high UN official, was despatched forward to weaken the strengths of the agitation teams earlier than the President’s arrival.

“The UN programme is beginning on September 18. The Chief of Workers is leaving for USA tomorrow (Thursday) with some folks working with him, together with his private Assistant, Luqman Bosun Emiola. Nobody is aware of when they are going to be again however they don’t seem to be alleged to have any enterprise with the President’s journey.

“Buhari shall be attending the UN Common Meeting however the Chief of Workers already left,” the supply had stated.

Pressinformant had on August 11 reported that agitation teams within the nation underneath the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Dedication (NINAS) stated they’d maintain a a million march on the UN Headquarters in New York, to reiterate the demand for a referendum on self-determination and abolition of the 1999 Structure of Nigeria.

NINAS is an umbrella physique of self-determination movements within the South-South, South-East, Center Belt and South-West (Ilana Omo Oodua).

The a million march is scheduled to carry between September 14 and 21, 2021 when the 76th session of the United Nations Common Meeting would maintain in the US.

Regardless of being a former Military Common, the extent of insecurity underneath Buhari’s administration has worsened with just about all components of the nation at present battling one type of violent crimes or one other.

The World Terrorism Index (2019) ranked Nigeria because the third-worst nation susceptible to terrorism with no enchancment since 2017.

Apart from insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and secessionist violence are pushing Nigeria in direction of the brink of collapse with many calling for the resignation of the President for “failing” to safe the nation.

Utilizing safety operatives, the Buhari-led authorities can be recognized for harassing, assaulting and intimidating journalists, human rights activists, protesters and critics of the federal government.

The federal government has additionally proven hostility to Nigerian Judges and indifference to courtroom judgments and orders, thereby significantly undermining their standing and authority, and the notion of entry to justice.

His administration merely ignores courtroom judgments and orders.

Buhari has actually normalised disobedience to courtroom orders, and state-sanctioned brutality towards peaceable protesters.

The administration additionally continues to violate human rights with impunity.