VP candidate of the APC, Prof Yemi Osinbajo says
if elected into government, Buhari would lead the
Nigerian military in the fight against members of
Boko Haram. Speaking at a town hall meeting
organized by the Act Now Professionals in Abuja
yesterday Jan 26th,
Prof Osinbajo said the fight
against Boko Haram can not be won by leading
from the rear...
"The first priority is security and to question
what has gone wrong in the military. Then,
funding the military adequately and ensuring
that the Commander-In-Chief leads from the
front. But when he was Commander-In-Chief,
Buhari led from the front as a soldier. You
cannot lead from the rear. You cannot fail to
go to where the insurgency is taking place and
that is what Buhari has been saying.
"I think that the major problem with the
question of security is again that it was not
prioritised by this government. It was not
taken seriously enough from the beginning.
When you have a situation, you do not
politicise the insurgency like that. You do not
point to the opposition and say it is the
opposition that is sponsoring it until General
Buhari almost lost his life when Boko Haram
attacked him. We must start by understanding
that there is a war going on in that part of the
country and what the government need to do is
to get the nation behind it, not pointing
accusing fingers at wrong places. We need to
look at the whole question of funding and
equipping the military. The military at the
moment is not equipped. I worked with Femi
Falana on the mutiny of some solders and
what is the complaint of those soldiers who
were charged with mutiny? Their complaint is
that they were not given equipment and they
wanted them to go to battle. So, how do you
say that? How does anybody think that you
can fight the insurgents without ammunition?”
he said
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