VP
candidate of the APC, Prof Yemi Osinbajo says if elected into
government, Buhari would lead the Nigerian military in the fight
against members of Boko Haram. Speaking at a town hall meeting
organized by the Act Now Professionals in Abuja yesterday Jan 26th,
Prof Osinbajo said the fight against Boko Haram can not be won by
leading from the rear...
"The first
priority is security and to question what has gone wrong in the
military. Then, funding the military adequately and ensuring that the
Commander-In-Chief leads from the front. But when he was
Commander-In-Chief, Buhari led from the front as a soldier. You cannot
lead from the rear. You cannot fail to go to where the insurgency is
taking place and that is what Buhari has been saying.
"I
think that the major problem with the question of security is again
that it was not prioritised by this government. It was not taken
seriously enough from the beginning. When you have a situation, you do
not politicise the insurgency like that. You do not point to the
opposition and say it is the opposition that is sponsoring it until
General Buhari almost lost his life when Boko Haram attacked him. We
must start by understanding that there is a war going on in that part
of the country and what the government need to do is to get the nation
behind it, not pointing accusing fingers at wrong places. We need to
look at the whole question of funding and equipping the military. The
military at the moment is not equipped. I worked with Femi Falana on
the mutiny of some solders and what is the complaint of those soldiers
who were charged with mutiny? Their complaint is that they were not
given equipment and they wanted them to go to battle. So, how do you
say that? How does anybody think that you can fight the insurgents
without ammunition?" he said
Source:
Punch
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