The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to deploy more soldiers and other security operatives in the troubled North-East ravaged by Boko Haram insurgents rather than keep them for the 2015 general elections.
Buhari, who made this call during a meeting with stakeholders of Ogoni ethnic nationality in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday, also said that, if voted into power, his administration would implement the report of the United Nations Environment Programme on the clean-up of Ogoniland.
He argued that the Boko Haram onslaught would have been a thing of the past if the Federal Government had moved the number of soldiers, police and operatives of the State Security Service deployed during elections to Borno and Yobe states as well as the other areas affected by insurgency.
He said, “I have made this comment before and the Federal Government refused to react to it; the number of soldiers, policemen and officers of the State Security Services they deploy during elections, if they had deployed them to Borno and Yobe states to fight Boko Haram, by now, Boko Haram would have been history.
“Boko Haram is not a religious group; Boko Haram is not an ethnic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist group. They attack people in schools, they attack people in Churches, they attack people in Mosques, they attack people in markets, and they shout Allahu Akbah! No religion rejoices over the blood of innocent people.”
The former Head of State promised that he would put an end to the pollution in Ogoniland if elected as the President of the country during the February 14 election.
Buhari reiterated his promise to fight terrorism, corruption and other forms of crimes, if elected President.
Earlier, the Director-General of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had asked President Jonathan to explain to Nigerians and the world why he had refused to implement the UNEP report on the clean-up of Ogoniland.
Amaechi said the President’s hatred for the people of Ogoni could be responsible for his inability to implement the UNEP report since the funds that would be used to clean up Ogoniland would come from Shell Petroleum Company.
“Let President Goodluck Jonathan tell us why he has not allowed the implementation of the UNEP report. He has no reason. The money to be spent in the implementation of the report is not his; the money belongs to Shell,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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But u were against the state of emergency declared on 3 of the north eastern states. U were even against deployment of soldiers, advocating for amnesty, u talk from 2 sides of ur mouth.
ReplyDeleteAPC said they will forgive the past corrupt leaders, u said u will jail past leaders, who do we believe?
I think u APC people are just being deceptive.
Your problem is that you can't understand simple English
DeletePl's make me understand the simple english.
DeleteBuhari will go to the North and tell them not vote a southerner or christian, he will come to south and preach one Nigeria. Very deceptive
ReplyDeleteRead well. U listen to rumours. He never told northerners that.
DeleteGood talk soldiers are to fight war not to monitor elections,Mr president is confuse
ReplyDeletepresido deploy soldiers whr neccessary. if police alone can take care d election ,bring soldiers also,u r d commander-in-chief.
ReplyDeleteYou people should read news well. did he say he would jail past leaders? has his campaign train been to the north? didn't he defeat maitasin? did he decalre state of emergency then?
ReplyDeleteEither that some people do not care to read correctly or they do not understand simple English. GMB has never said he will jail past leaders. Anyway the truth is that Nigeria need change. The current leadership has failed . We must not be sentimental while casting our votes or else we will still be on this platform next year and beyond blaming our leaders. Let's do the needful by voting in a man who can fight corruption not who will be romancing it.
ReplyDeletePresident Jonathan and our security forces should learn France,their president and their police was always telling the nationtha situation of things,the entire nation was carried along,on like our president that will not make statement untill after two weeks and going for a political rally the next day after Boko Aram killed over a hundred,even the SSS that the presidet and PDP are now using as a tool in fighting the opposition,not to talk of the police that are trained for bribe taking.
ReplyDeleteBUHARAM, u are not meant for that sit at all. Your kind of spirit is too violent, u cn use it in ur state alone not Nigeria as a nation. Jonathan is far better. History is still speaking.
ReplyDeleteAPC said that if they win they would not fight past corrupt leaders, this is meant to make people comfortable, what Buhari says after is not relevant. He said in the north that people should only vote a Muslim and a northerner. He was against state of emergency , the facts are there! So why are Nigerians so gullible? He is suddenly a Christian loving man?
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