As EndSARS protests continue to escalate in different parts of Nigeria, Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadri Mohammed has urged the media to use its reportage in uniting Nigerians in the face of protest against police brutality in the country.
The governor said despite growing outcry against the police, the country still needs them to maintain peace.
The Governor who stated this in his residence in Yelwan Duguri at Alkeleri local government area of Bauchi, shortly after casting his vote during the local government election, said that the country is divided as a result of the various protests, hence journalists should not heatup the polity by writing sensational reports.
“Nigeria is so much divided now in the face of the ongoing protests against the SARS unit of the police.You as journalists should not aggravate the situation, but should unite Nigerians by disseminating the rigth information, such that will not heatup the polity”
“This local government election in the state was conducted to give the people of Bauchi the priveledge of exercising their own universal suffrage by electing their own leaders.This, we have successfully done today and the people of the state, especially the grassroot are happy that we have kept our campaign promise of conducting a free and fair local government election” he said
Governor Mohammed commended the people of the local government and other parts of the state, for conducting themselves in a peaceful manner throughout the conduct of the election, assuring that his administration will bring more dividends of democracy to the people of the state.
