Emmanuel Yawe, national publicity secretary of the Arewa
Consultative Forum (ACF), says he has lost faith in President Muhammadu
Buhari’s administration.
Yawe, who made this comment when he featured on Channels
Television’s ‘Politics Today’, said the people are depressed and sad about the
incessant attacks and killings in the north.
He said during the 2015 elections, the people considered the
two major candidates’ “history” and were impressed with Buhari’s records and
decided to go for him.
He said the belief was that Buhari had the capability to
secure the country as a result of his past actions as a military man.
“When the elections were to be conducted in 2015, the two
principal candidates — Goodluck Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari — some
of us looked at the two candidates,” he said.
“What was disturbing the north then, there were feelings of
insecurity. So when we looked at these two candidates, we said well Jonathan
was a university lecturer before he went into politics, before he became local
government chairman, governor of his state, then vice president to president
…all by luck…. his name stuck to him.
“But Buhari was a general who fought in the war to keep
Nigeria in the 60s and 70s, then head of state.
“And some of us even had personal testimonies to give. I
remember I was a reporter with New Nigerian Newspaper in 1983 when some
Chadians invaded Nigeria and took some Nigerian land. As a young man in my 20s,
I was sent to cover him, he did very well; he chased away those rascals.
“And we were impressed with this. We said this is the man
who is going to secure Nigeria but what has happened? On a daily basis when we
hold our meetings in Kaduna, we keep receiving reports …every state in the
north…. Every state in the north is not secure.
“Is it not the man we had so much faith in? If he couldn’t
do any other thing, at least he will be able to secure the north and the
country.
“How can I have faith in someone who presides over this kind
of …this state of affair…? When he was coming to become president, I had faith
in him because I witnessed how successful he was in chasing away enemies coming
to Nigeria.
“But now, 300 people
kidnapped in his home state.”
The ACF spokesman said he does not feel safe travelling to
his home state in Taraba as a result of frequent attacks.
“I can’t go to my home state of Taraba, the whole place is
in chaos. They are killing people every day, that one is not publicised because
there is no oil in Taraba,” he said.
“What can I say is you have seen what has been happening to
our people. I used to drive from Maiduguri sometimes to Sokoto alone in the
car, sometimes at night, nothing will happen to me. Even at the worse of this
in Abacha days, I used to drive alone all over the north. I have never felt
unsafe like the way I feel now.”
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