By Austin Ogwuda
Enugu — FORMER Military Head of State
and a presidential aspirant of All
Progressives Congress, APC, General
Muhamadu Buhari, (retd), weekend, said it
was wrong to blame Nigerian soldiers over
the country’s inability to root out Boko
Haram insurgent.


According to him, since no attention had
been paid to soldiers’ complaints about lack
of equipment to tackle the insurgents
headlong, despite huge money voted for
defence sector.


He spoke in Enugu while addressing state
delegates of APC to the forthcoming
presidential primaries of the party in
Enugu.


Exonerating the Nigerian military, Buhari
said, “Soldiers have been complaining that
they are ill equipped, in spite of the trillions
budgeted for defence in the last three
years. If you consider the revenue Nigeria
has generated since 1999, you will be
shocked at how inefficient and corrupt PDP
has been. Soldiers have been saying they
are ill equipped, yet trillions have been
voted for defence in the last three years. If
we don’t vote out PDP we will all be the
losers. Cast your votes for us so that we
can all fight this inefficiency and
corruption.”


He observed that 2015 would turn out to
be another landmark year in the country’s
history and advised party members to get
their Permanent Voters Cards, PVC’s as it
was the only ammunition to vote out PDP
and also ensure that their votes counted in
the 2015 general elections.


He was accompanied by former Minister of
Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El
Rufai and Chief Audu Ogbe.


General Chris Eze (retd) who responded on
behalf of other delegates, described Buhari
as the President Nigeria needed, noting
that with him as President, Nigeria would
once again, be sure of having a
Commander and in Chief that knew his
onion and recalled how the Maitasine sect
was driven away from Nigeria into Chad
during his (Buhari) reign as the Head of
State.


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