The Presidency, on Tuesday, described
the comments made by a former Head of State and National Leader of the
Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on
Saturday’s attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, as “reckless”.
Describing Buhari’s comments also as
“opportunistic”, the Presidency warned politicians, especially members
of the opposition, not to use the attack to make cheap political
statements.
It also noted that the comments by Buhari and that of the Nigeria Labour Congress were “irresponsible”.
Buhari, in a statement by the CPC
National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, had condemned the
attack, saying, “The country was not just under an ominous cloud of
insecurity but that its citizens were also victims”.
Reacting to the comments, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe,
said, “The statement by Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, his party, the CPC,
is unfortunate, reckless and opportunistic”.
Okupe added, “Any attempt to politicise
this unfortunate attack on the revered Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, and
members of his family is irresponsible.
“Though, the attack itself is
regrettable, it is difficult at present to blame it on the Boko Haram or
terrorism or in fact, on some criminal elements within the society that
hid under the spate of insecurity in the state to perpetuate this
heinous crime”.
On the NLC remarks, Okupe said the union ought to be non-partisan and should see things with nationalistic view.
He said, “We are not impressed by similar stance by the NLC that is supposed to be non-partisan in nature and in all approaches.
“There is indeed absolutely no need to politicise this unfortunate attack on the revered emir.”
The Presidential aide however said the
Police and other security agencies were working to ensure the arrest and
prosecution of the perpetrators of the attack.
Noting that crime was inevitable in any
country, Okupe said when crime happens in the United States, none of its
citizens blames President Barak Obama for the attack.
He added, “At that moment in the United
States, no American citizen or group blamed the killings on the
President or the government, in spite of avalanche of security apparatus
and expertise available to the United States Government.”
He said what any responsible government
would do was to ensure that the perpetuators of these heinous crimes
were apprehended, arrested and prosecuted according to the laws of the
land.
Calling for the pooling of resources and
information, Okupe urged the citizenry to support government and the
security agencies to ensure the arrest of the criminal elements.
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ReplyDeleteEven if the opposition child bedwets all they do is to rush to the careless media and rain critisms and abuses on d Presidency! Smh! Na wah o!
ReplyDeleteBabz.Mubi.
The comments attributed to the General and the labour congress picture the reality on the ground. It does not call for the kind of reaction the government is giving to it. Insecurity is a present and worrisome challenge for us all.
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ReplyDeleteBuhari is saying the truth.GEJ is just a figure head president.
ReplyDeleteChile, 1.23pm above, if you know Buhari very well, you won't say the above comments on him. The question is why is it that Buhari's comment always attract gravity from ASO ROCK, while OBJ 's comment that is even heavier nowadays attract no attention. the answer is because the only person that can remove PDP from ASO ROCK that a poor Nigerian still have small hope on is him. Forget about religious/tribal bigotry and lets face reality because the high level of corruption,poverty,insecurity,unemployment,kidnapping etc infilterated on land by this PDP led govt is non respecta of any tribe/religion. if you are in the north,you will agree with late Azizza that nothing is boko haram. PDP is the boko haram. problems are all over Nigeria. if you don't have this problem at your end you have that. Buhari has never call for violence not to talk of war. All those negative things you hear about Buhari are PDP CREATION. His personal driver and his cooks today are still xtains.pls note
ReplyDeleteDon't mind them,the little opportunity they have is to criticise the govt so as to win favour from the masses.Not knowing that the insecurity from the north has distroyed all their good records.Since they choose to remain silence it shows that they are cooperating(harborer or suporters) of BH.Mind you,you won't win the favour of nigns with this heartless altitude.
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