Nigeria, March 13 -- The Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has spoken against "people" making "demeaning" remarks against President Muhammadu Buhari.

"There is no need for people to have the paraphernalia of security - you have the police, you have SSS, you have all (that). And those are the ones that help you to sleep in the night and then you come out to say that the presidency is deceiving people," Mr Akpabio, in what looked like a veiled attack apparently targeted at the governors of the states that make up Nigeria's Niger Delta region.

Mr Akpabio said in his speech at the inauguration of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) permanent office building in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, while he...