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“How can you advise a government headed by a man with these intimidating security credentials? Some of us who played some peripheral role in his coming to power in 2015 feel rather let down by the current turn of events”
OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 11, 2021
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has said the failure of the Buhari government to end insecurity as promised during his presidential campaigns, has left the North with no other option but to agree with what late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, said on the state of insecurity.
It will be recalled that an Abacha’s famous quote, claims that “If insurgency lasts for more than 24 hrs, the government has a hand in it”
The National Publicity Secretary, of the group, Mr. Emmanuel Yawe, made this remark in an interview with Sunday Sun. The group was reacting to the spike in killings and kidnappings in the North that Buhari’s government seem unable to contain.
The ACF, therefore, concluded that there be well-oiled machinery behind it the persistence of the menace, adding that millions of Nigeria who supported President Buhari’s rise to power have felt let down by his handling of security and other challenges confronting the nation.
“How can you advise a government headed by a man with these intimidating security credentials? Some of us who played some peripheral role in his coming to power in 2015 feel rather let down by the current turn of events.
“We all know there is a network that spans the civil society, the military, the legislature, and the executive that do not want this season of insecurity to end,” Yawe said.
“We are worried stiff about the security situation in the country more so when the man who is president is not only a war-tested general but a former military Head of State.
“The ACF has said this over and over and over again. We have said it loud and clear that the security situation is very bad. We have said it, not silently that Nigerians and particularly Northerners are not safe.
“What needs to be done is the political will to handle the matter. Sadly, the governments, both states and federal, are deficient in this.
“We all know there is a network that spans the civil society, the military, the legislature, and the executive that do not want this season of insecurity to end.
“The reasons they are doing these evil machinations are difficult to see. If the political will is there, this dangerous network can be disbanded. Nigeria cannot be as helpless and hopeless as we appear to be at the moment,” Yawe said.
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