In what could be deemed a significant deviation from the Nigerian Armed Forces’ doctrine, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisation on Tuesday endorsed the incidents of mutiny by soldiers and officers of the all-volunteer Nigerian Army, who had sworn to defend Nigeria’s territorial integrity, but refused to fight when they were sent to combat terrorism in the North-east.

Enunciating the position of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, whose candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, is a retired army major-general, former military head of state and must be conversant with the Nigerian Armed Forces Act, its Director-General (DG) and Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, said the soldiers sentenced to death by the Nigerian military authorities were within their rights to protest.
Amaechi made the statement, while briefing newsmen in Lagos on the plans and modalities of how as the DG for the Buhari campaign, his team, whose members would be announced soon, will work for the victory of the APC in next year’s presidential election.
However, it was not clear if the pronouncement by the APC campaign organisation was a new defence policy plank, which it intends to pursue should Buhari win the presidential election, or realpolitiks, which will be a dangerous dimension of bringing the Nigerian Armed Forces into the 2015 election.
According to Amaechi, “The challenge of the Nigerian military is not funding but corruption. Now they want to kill some 50 officers for their own failure to equip them properly to fight terrorism. The soldiers have the right to protest for the federal government’s failure to fully equip them.”
He said Buhari as president will adequately deal with the Boko Haram menace. “I hope that Nigerians will hear the message. The message is simple. Buhari is a strong leader who chased away the Maitatsine terror group. In the same manner, he will chase away Boko Haram.

“Borno was attacked once by Chadian rebels and Buhari then chased them away, even into the border of Chad. He will do that again with the Boko Haram sect. The issue of Boko Haram is not religious but poverty is what will make people go and register with any terrorist group.”
When asked why the APC was waiting for when they get into power to deal with the issue of Boko Haram, Amaechi said: “If we had the power to stop the insurgency we would have done that to salvage the three North-east states presently under emergency rule.”

Contrary to Amaechi’s assertion, the three North-east states are no longer under emergency rule as it expired last month.
According to him, “State governors do not have the power to end the insurgency but the federal government does. The issue of security is in the exclusive list. APC as it stands cannot do anything to end the insurgency because we are not in power.”

MudRaker:
If you put "" ahead of Rivers you get...

Drivers.

Caseless:
how come you have an individual to be drivers ? One=plural?
Sms!

means:
We are waiting for this insensitive administration to publicly kill the 54 soldiers. Its a disaster waiting to happen. GEJ hurry! Do it! The real army personnel have always complained of lack of superior weapons but the defence cheifs are feeding fat on huge military budgets because the C in C is languishing in corruption. Amaechi is only stating the obvious truth. The very reasons some superpowers like the US are reluctant to step in. Jona dont waste any more time. Do it. We will clap for you.

masterpower:

Because it is Rivers and not River.