Buhari Suggests New Strategies In Battle With Boko Haram, Condemns Yobe, Kano Attacks
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has called for new security strategies in the battle against Boko Haram, especially in the North East and North Central region of the country even as he condemned the recent attack by the sect on Kano and Yobe states where many people lost their lives.
A statement from the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisatin quoted General Buhar as commending the efforts and sacrifices of the nation’s counter-terrorism forces, but that there is the need for greater vigilance and new strategies.
General Buhari recognised the complexity of terrorism and its peculiar challenges but called for more and tougher strategies, adding that a situation where the criminals outsmart the system is disturbing.
He further advised the Federal Government to take proactive steps to stem the frequency with which the terrorists or suicide bombers penetrate security cordon and checkpoints with maximum ease and strike their targets with extreme cruelty.
The APC Presidential candidate said that it is concerned about the effects of frequent terrorists’ attacks on the psyche of the ordinary citizens, who may give in to despair that the government lacks the capacity to protect them.
General Buhari regretted the latest Yobe bomb blast which came on the eve of the first anniversary of the Buni Yadi terrorist attack which killed dozens of innocent students of a Federal Government College in their sleep.
The General commended the heroic exploits of the officers and men and women of the Armed Forces on their fight against the Boko Haram terrorists that have for several years made life a living hell for many Nigerians while creating the greatest security nightmare ever known by the country, since the end of the Civil war.
Buhari of expressed delight with the speed and efficiency with which several towns and villages in the North east region of the country, namely Baga, Konduga, Dikwa etc., hitherto overrun by the terrorists or under their control, have been liberated by the Nigerian troops.
According to him, it is refreshing to realize as patriotic Nigerians that indeed we have a military that can hold its own in combat and by so doing be an inspiration, and complement the efforts of friendly forces fighting alongside them.
“While we have noted the full display of professionalism and courage in combat exhibited by the gallant officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Armed forces, we also pay tribute to their allies from Cameroun, Chad and Niger who are fighting alongside them. Terrorism being the scourge of today’s world requires the collective effort and resolve of the international community and relevant regional forces to deal with.
“As we celebrate the triumph of our forces and look forward to the eventual weakening and possible annihilation of the terrorists from our territory and the sub-region, we urge the Armed forces to do more and ensure that territories already re-captured do not fall again to the terrorists and that reasonable security is provided to encourage the displaced population to return to their homelands.
“We want to use this opportunity to remind the entire rank and file of the Armed Forces that under an APC government to be headed by General Buhari, the Armed Forces as an institution would be encouraged and given all it requires to continue to excel and fulfil its Constitutional role of providing reliable and sound security for the nation.” [myad]
Between Buhari And Fayose, By Deen Adavize
Since General Muhammadu Buhari emerged as Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), two agents of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani-Kayode and Governor Ayodele Fayose have particularly been out in the open. They have been on duty, trying to pull him, as a person, down, which, by the African standard, can be accepted as the dirty part of politicking. Indeed, in the African parlance, the easiest way to hear about the imagined or cooked-up bad deeds of your ancestors from those who did not even know where you were born, is for you to join politics. It is also in politics that a half-sane young man would insult a wise old man, old enough to be his father. And, like in war, all such things are regarded, to some extent, as fair!
It all began when the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suddenly perceived the danger which the popularity of General Buhari could pose to its bloated ego against the background of the 2015 general elections. The party sent its agents, including the two Whitllow-infected mouthed ones, to dig into Buhari’s past records. They went into the archive and found that, in matters of integrity, honesty, incorruptibility, General Buhari is unbeatable. They began to search hard for at least, something to use in discrediting him.
That was when one of the two agents: the Director of media and publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Fani-Kayode came up with a contrived certificate saga: the matter that did not crop up in the three previous attempts the General made to unseat, through ballot, the PDP Presidents, starting from the then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Fani-Kayode madly pursued the course of the Buhari’s certificate and lack of it until he became exhausted even as Buhari kept gathering more momentum.
Just as the dust raised by Fani-Kayode designed agenda to pull Buhari down was settling in the charged political environment, the Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose intensified his phobia about the ill-health of General Buhari which was originally raised by Fani-Kayode.
In the middle of the Fayose’s mad and desperation as he pursued a wish of ill-health for, and even death of, the APC Presidential candidate, he (Fayose) and his brother, Fani-Kayode contrived what was later discovered to be a fake or scammed medical certificate which purportedly showed that the General was actually sick. That could have been enough to land Fayose and Fani-Kayode in jail, but this is Nigeria, under PDP government!
While, as noted, Fani-Kayode has backed down on the issue of certificate, as he discovered that he had exhausted all the tricks he gathered, Fayose is now leading himself blindly into a big valley. He is indeed, turning the extreme case of insultive part of the African politics into lunatic display.
As a matter of fact, Fayose is manifesting an African proverb which says that a hand that frequently goes to the anus unnecessarily and or foolishly would one day, bring out stool (shit).
Fayose displayed his ridiculous ignorance recently when an announcement came that General Buhari was on his way to the UK for a short working visit.
Fayose went to town, as if he was Buhari’s medical doctor or consultant, to tell the world, through, of course, his gullible allies in the media, that the General was actually flown out for medical treatment.
Even when, a few days later, pictures of Buhari personally having a meeting with the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair; of him being interviewed by a Television reporter and of him addressing Nigerian Professionals in London, Fayose still went ahead to dispute the pictures. He said at one time that the pictures were taken in 2013, at another time that the one in which Buhari was being interviewed by a reporter was taken at the Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria.
As a matter of fact, when all evidences showed that Buhari was actually in London, the busy-body governor now went spiritual: he asked General Buhari to swear with the Holy Qur’an that he did not visit hospital in London.
Fayose has been so mad at pulling Buhari down that he has not only landed in total confusion, but has now earned the anger of his fellow Yoruba people who see him as a disgrace to the society.
Indeed, the stage at which Fayose is now operating points to only serious matter of insanity. If there is anybody who is sick all over and who needs special medical attention from special hospital overseas, it is Governor Ayodele Fayose. His aides should be of favour to him by assisting to package him into the next available flight to God knows where before it is too late. [myad]