The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero has urged President Bola Tinubu to address issues of hardship and insecurity confronting Nigeria.
Bayero requested this from the First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu
who was in Kano to open the faculty of law at a private university.
Speaking through his interpreter, the Emir urged the First Lady to notify her husband, President Bola Tinubu about the high level of hunger and starvation in the nation.
He said: "Although we have several means of communicating to the government on our needs and requests, your way and means is the surest way to tell the President the actual happenings in the country
"The hunger and starvation didn’t start with this government but the situation has become more alarming and needs urgent attention.
“The issue of insecurity is another serious problem we are facing. I know your government inherited it, but something more serious should be done to take care of the threats."
The Emir also harped on the relocation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to Lagos.
“We are receiving a series of messages from our people. One such message is the much-talked-about relocation of CBN and FAAN to Lagos. I think the government should come out clean on this matter and talk to Nigerians in the language they would understand.
“Do more enlightenment on this matter. I for one cannot tell the actual intentions of the government. We should be made to understand the reasons behind the relocation of the CBN and FAAN offices to Lagos," he added.
He thus advised President Tinubu's wife to actualize her Renewed Hope Initiative Pet Program, saying that the scheme, if fully executed, would deliver many Nigerians from bonds of poverty in the country.
