By GBENGA OKE
LAGOS— A group, Southern Nigeria Ethnic Nationality Alliance, SNENA, has stated that calls for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan over the insecurity situation in the country is naïve and failed to address the nation’s fundamental problems.

The group maintained that the challenges facing the nation goes beyond individuals because they were fundamental problems which cannot be solved wholeheartedly by half-baked and self-serving measures.

At a briefing in Lagos, yesterday, Deputy Coordinator of the group, Mr. Akin Adesokan, said the group which comprises  various ethnic nationalities from the Southern part of Nigeria had come together as one body to address the frightening situation occasioned by the activities of Boko Haram and to condemn in strong terms senseless killings, destruction of human lives and the conscious attempt to cause anarchy in Nigeria by Boko Haram.

“We see this violent uprising as a calculated attempt to blackmail peace loving Nigerians and intimidate the nation into submission to the whims of a tiny cabal that has made the impossible demand that Sharia law be introduced across the country irrespective of the fact that Nigeria is a plural society,” he said

He however called on President Jonathan and the National Assembly to support the call for a Sovereign National Conference, (SNC) just as he said the call for State Police is a right step in the right direction.