Kwankwaso, who spoke with reporters in his office weekend, also advised the presidency to reduce the level of hatred and bitterness among Nigerians, if the government was actually interested in resolving the problem of insecurity.
According to him, the real cause of insecurity in the country is bad leadership being experienced in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) -led government, noting that the inability of President Jonathan to tackle the issue of insurgency in the North and insecurity in other parts of the country has exposed Jonathan’s incompetence to preside over the affairs of Nigeria.
He said: “Now, they are just using propaganda. Look at the issue of the abduction of Chibok girls. The schoolgirls have been in captivity and they kept arguing —where are the names, who are they, where are the photographs; they didn’t believe that over 200 children were abducted. Haba! Even if it is 20 tortoise or goats! Won’t you look for them? One of the reasons I love this country is that we have people of integrity in all the regions, in all the states like my former colleague, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili.
“This is somebody who worked at the World Bank, but now she has devoted her time to the cause of these girls. She is not from this part of the country, but she felt she had to take the bull by the horns and that is what we are seeing in developed countries—fight injustice, save people, help them, if you have the opportunity to do so. They sent some hawks to go and stop the protesters. The other day, I went to Abuja, I saw an advertisement, while Ezekwesili was saying ‘BringBackOurGirls’, some people were saying ‘vote for us, we want to stay and maintain the status quo; look at my photograph, I am smiling.’ And they don’t know time is of essence.
“At the moment, the country is in a critical situation, and if this madness is not stopped and if it is allowed to degenerate, and becomes the order of the day, whereby innocent people are being killed every day, then something is wrong with the leadership.
“What Nigeria requires now is a strong leadership that can effectively tackle the insurgency in the North-East, and other topical security challenges,” he said.
Kwankwaso then suggested that one major way to restore normalcy in the northern part of the country was to draw out a Marshal Plan for the region, and urged Jonathan to stamp his feet as the Commander –In-Chief of the Armed Forces, to tackle this security issue.
The governor challenged the President to think seriously about the statement made by General T.Y Danjuma, (rtd), who suggested that President Jonathan lead Nigerians to Sambisa Forest to rescue the abducted Chibok girls.
“What the President must realise is that nobody can run a country by luck. You can win election by luck, but you cannot be lucky all the time. So Goodluck as his name implies should look beyond luck in handling the affairs of this country. What Nigeria requires is a strong leadership that will stop all this nonsense or in the alternative, negotiate from the point of strength with the insurgents,” Kwankwaso noted.
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Mr governor u lack discipline.u ve opportunities to meet d president at security council meetings to advise him,but u wil not do that.u then goes about making public statements dt can cause more problems.check urself,if are not d problem of nigeria bcos of ur selfish movtives.think before u talk and check d consequnce of ur talk to d general public.
ReplyDeletehear wo us talkin.in jst sum fews months back,u wia a member PDP.u are recruiting and trainin terrorist in kano state in d name of creating jobs,dis is d same footstep alimodo sherif of borno state did.and now we are battlin boko haram.check urslf,u are even d bigga threat to dis country.criminal.
ReplyDelete"negotiate from the point of strength with the insurgents,” Kwankwaso noted. Haba Kwankwaso how can you convince us Nigerians that you can come clean on the insecurity challenges of this country? with this statement of yours? Surely you re an embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteMr governor why don't u change ur name to goodluck so dat u can be lucky also.
ReplyDeleteI always doubted the mental and Intelligence quotient of this Kwankwaso guy, He is so simplistic and pedestrian in his thought process and comments. BH is a global monster that rabble rousers like himself have taken over 20 years to breed in the name of sustaining an outdated oligarchy. Northern leaders must tell themselves the home truth, their refusal to accept western education; fearing it will disrupt the leadership structure of the ruling class has finally come home to roost. I grew up in Zaria and we know clearly that Many Northern leaders never took any interest to mass-educate their people. Almmajiri scheme (an neo slavery concept) is still very viable till today. Nigeria and Niger should be the only countries practicing such in the entire world. Enough of this abdicative and irresponsible comments from kwankwaso. I propose leaders undergo aptitude test as part of their screening excercise by INEC. If you must reason through the anus, then public office should be far from you...Imagine the folowing shenanigans by a public officer:\
ReplyDelete1- Sweeping a rally ground with all your commisioners where the President of the Federal republic held a campaign rally...in the 21st century!!!
2- Insulting a Chairman of a Federal parastatal like Nigeria Population Council who simply said Nigerian Population since 1960 has been faulty and needs to be improved scientifically, Saying such a man (who has been MD of Nigeria's biggest quoted company at the time) is always drunk!!! Wowww!!!
Such madness must be resisted by all good people of Kano state. Kwankwaso is not intelligent, composed or Matured enough to hold public office. Its really unfortunate.
Joseph Onuorah
Deme Deme na Orumba
you are very correct, vampires living amongst humans that's exactly what kwakwanso is. useless blood sucking vampire.
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