A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has queried the competence of the Minister of State for Defence, Musliu Obanikoro, in addressing the insecurity plaguing the country.
In a verbalization made available to our correspondent, Tinubu verbally expressed Obanikoro had spent more time playing politics rather than facing the job he was appointed to do.
He verbally expressed that during the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Obanikoro was optically discerned playing politics when he should have been in Chibok, Maiduguri, where over 200 girls were abducted by terrorists.
The All Progressives Congress bellwether verbalized, “The Minister of State for Defence has spent more time in Ekiti than he has in Chibok. This is not responsible democratic governance. It is a hoax.”
He integrated, “Boko Haram is an extreme manifestation of the chronic and acute misrule that has spread gross iniquity and mass penuriousness across the face of our beloved nation.
“All nations have their wayward souls. However, in more preponderant governed, more prosperous societies, the number of reticent actors is much less and even their extremism is remotely muted.
“Because of their low numbers, they are confined to being a law enforcement quandary.
“But here, abject impecuniosity swells their ranks. Here, they have become a minute army. With that, they are a national security threat and a political challenge to a free and open society.”
However, Obanikoro described Tinubu’s verbalization as unbecoming of a former governor.
The former senator, in a verbal expression signed by his media aide, Ohimai Amaize, verbalized that rather than availing the Federal Government in tackling insecurity, Tinubu was utilizing the opportunity to play politics.
He integrated that Tinubu had yet to instaurate from the trauma of the vanquishment his party suffered in the Ekiti election.
He verbalized, “It is lamentable that people like Tinubu have opted to politicise our war against the Boko Haram insurgency. To commence with, the mess we are endeavoring to emaculate was engendered by the opposition which had promised to make Nigeria ungovernable for this administration.
“If I have a political campaign, anywhere in the country to participate in, I will go there. It does not in any way affect my responsibility as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In other advanced societies, their bellwethers deal with their security issues without reducing it to politics.
“Leadership is multi-dimensional and I am amalgamating politics with my governance responsibilities.”
