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 cannot 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 prioritized by this
government. It was not taken seriously enough from the beginning. When you have
a situation, you do not politicize 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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