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Why Jonathan did not visit Chibok—Yakasai
Category: Lead storiesPublished on Monday, 29 December 2014 05:01Written by Maryam Ahmadu-Suka, KadunaHits: 4853
Alhaji Tanko YakasaiElder statesman and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, at the weekend said it was too risky for President Jonathan to visit Chibok when over 200 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in April.
Over 200 students were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State in April this year. Civil right groups and the international community had urged the federal government to rescue the girls who are still in captivity.
President Jonathan did not visit the school, leading to more criticism of his administration.
But Alhaji Tanko Yakasai said in the popular Radio Nigeria Kaduna Hausa programme, “Hannu da Yawa” monitored in Kaduna Saturday that soldiers were the right people to be sent to that town and not the president.
He said: “Why I think the president’s decision not to visit the area is not bad is because we were all aware of the deteriorating level of insecurity in that part of the country. We all know it was too risky for the president to visit Chibok at that time. The president is not a soldier, soldiers are the people that should be sent there. If I was the president and such an incident occurred, the right thing for me to do was to send soldiers and to be frank, our soldiers are doing their best. We are hearing on radio and reading on newspapers how soldiers are being killed but yet they are doing their best. I don’t know what is happening, the Minister of Defence, Ali Gusau, is a northerner, the National Security Adviser is a northerner, the Inspector General of Police is northerner, the Chief of Defence Staff is also a northerner.
“All Nigerian soldiers are under his order, if all these people cannot address the problem how would it be easy for the president to do it? Don’t forget that suicide bombers are now experts, so what will happen if they ambushed the president and something bad happened to him? Do you think his people will accept that? Except if people want the country to return to the Niger Delta militants era.”
On Boko Haram, Alhaji Yakasai said to end the crisis, serious measures must be taken.
“Could you imagine that today we are talking of female suicide bombers when we all know in history that females are known to be shy and peace loving? But today, a girl of age 13 was caught with bombs, some have detonated their bombs which killed many people in Kano. This is why it’s always advisable to tackle such a problem at the early stage before its get out of hand,” he said.
The elder statesman further lamented the plea by Borno elders for the government to withdraw soldiers from the area, saying it is a wrong decision. He called on Nigerians to continue advising government on ways to end the killings in the region as he appealed to Muslims and Christians to continue praying for the cooperate existence of the country.

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Japhet04:
a lengthy post for something dats none of our business

hakanai:
what of Sambo, CDS etc.?
i mean the FGN is not serious at all.PDP is a very foolish party of thieves. So the FGN can not send anybody yet people live there and a government i suppose to be there! Very useless reason i say.

barcanista:
It was risky for Jonathan but not risky for the Governor and the policemen. It was risky to visit but won't be risky to campaign in borno. What a useless and non-challant administration.


Sai Buhari

enoqueen:
When Jonathan was a deputy governor, calamity befall Alamesiagha, when he was vice president, calamity befall Yar'adua, and now he is the president of nigeria, a lot of calamity are befallen nigeria. 100,000 of nigerians are now refugees in their own country, over 13,000 have died in the hands of boko haram, fuel from 65 to 97, import duty is now times two, NEPA tariff going high, dana air crash, Agagu plane crash, Yakowa and Azazi crash, Dambaba Suntai crash, two military helicopter crash, super eagle defending champion zero, corruption, impunity, political thugs in d highest level. To mention but few. Jonathan is a calamity which any nation should pray against.... Beware!!!

hakanai:
what of Sambo, CDS etc.?
i mean the FGN is not serious at all.PDP is a very foolish party of thieves. So the FGN can not send anybody yet people live there and a government i suppose to be there! Very useless reason i say.

madridguy:
A leader who cannot sacrifice his life for his follower does not worth a president.

barcanista:
It was risky for Jonathan but not risky for the Governor and the policemen. It was risky to visit but won't be risky to campaign in borno. What a useless and non-challant administration.

Sai Buhari

Presidency: APC Govs’ Maiduguri Visit Was Reckless, Opportunistic
06 Mar 2013

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, who spoke to journalists in Abuja said: “The APC governors’ visit was hurriedly packaged to pre-empt the visit of Mr. President which had been planned and scheduled several weeks ago.

“This is surely an act of crass opportunism and political desperation on the part of these governors and the party they represent.”
According to Okupe, “We regard that visit as a media circus, stunt and photo-op by these governors who were apparently in Maiduguri to feather their political nests.

“If one may ask, where were these governors in the last 18 months that they had been in office? It is obvious that it is part of their mobilisation drive that took them to Borno State, rather than any patriotic call to duty.
“These are desperate power mongers who flock together in spite of their obvious conflicting political philosophies and inordinate ambitions.”


Okupe called on ACN to explain to Nigerians the benefits that the celebrated visit had brought to the citizens of Borno State and what effect it had on the activities of the Boko Haram sect, which even carried out bomb attacks while the APC meeting was in progress.

“That visit was borne out of sheer political recklessness and could have caused Nigeria major security embarrassment but for the fact that the Federal Government and its security apparatus took extra efforts to ensure that the visiting governors were safe.

“Being elected officials, the onus was on the Federal Government to ensure that they were safe in spite of their being oblivious of the peculiar security implications and real potential dangers inherent in their hurriedly packaged visit,” Okupe said.

Okupe further described the APC as a rickety political organisation seeking cheap publicity, saying, “The visit had nothing to do with sympathy, as it was borne out of political recklessness and political grandstanding.

“The Federal Government does not play to the gallery, it is doing what ought to be done.”

More from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidency-apc-govs-maiduguri-visit-was-reckless-opportunistic/141372/

anonimi:


Yes it was risky for the president to visit Chibok. Thankfully he did not as any fatality there could have spiralled and snowballed into a situation beyond imagination for our country as we currently know it.

As for your governor and policemen rant, you need to be reminded of how the PROPAGANDA fuelled media-hugging Association of Pretending Crooks, APC governors visited Maiduguri a few days before the president's planned visit to score cheap points of not being afraid of Boko Haram then. In case you do not know the logistics and security protocol for the president's visit to ANY where is not done in a matter of days or weeks, sometimes even months talk less of when a security situation is involved!




Not surprising given that the governor of Borno state is an APC leader!






That was on February 28, 2013.
Jonathan visited a week later on March 7, 2013.








You obviously do not understand that you are playing with serious fire that could burn ALL of us!!!

enoqueen:
When Jonathan was a deputy governor, calamity befall Alamesiagha, when he was vice president, calamity befall Yar'adua, and now he is the president of nigeria, a lot of calamity are befallen nigeria. 100,000 of nigerians are now refugees in their own country, over 13,000 have died in the hands of boko haram, fuel from 65 to 97, import duty is now times two, NEPA tariff going high, dana air crash, Agagu plane crash, Yakowa and Azazi crash, Dambaba Suntai crash, two military helicopter crash, super eagle defending champion zero, corruption, impunity, political thugs in d highest level. To mention but few. Jonathan is a calamity which any nation should pray against.... Beware!!!

anonimi:


I will ignore the incoherence and bad grammar plus structure of your post to talk about YOUR calamity message!

As for me and my household we will take a man who is PROGRESSIVELY reviving our railway sector over & above a daft old soldier who senselessly cancelled a metro rail project in Lagos over 30 years ago out of ethnocentric HATRED.
That is just one very comparable sector oh!

When all is taken into consideration, I will advise anyone to also choose that Goodluck calamity over the Buhari calamity any day, won't you

tonte:
so if he goes and gets attacked and killed that would be more satisfactory to you?

madridguy:
A leader who cannot sacrifice his life for his follower does not worth a president.

Demdem:

How will that be possible? A whole CinC and u are telling me that some miscreants will get hold of him.

Demdem:


How will that be possible? A whole CinC and u are telling me that some miscreants will get hold of him.

anonimi:


- What was General Aguiyi-Ironsi when he was killed, AinC?
- What was General Murtala Muhammed when he was killed, BinC?

Further confirmation that daftness is a pre-requisite to be a sympathiser/supporter/member of the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC

tonte:
nope they won't get a hold of him, but that does not mean that they would not at least try...and in trying that would mean that some other people who would be alive by his not coming may have to die because people may be trying to kill mr president...which may later mean he will have to abort the visit to chibok..he's said it before that he wants to visit, but has not got the required security clearance to do so....so let me ask you, if you were mr president, and you don't have the required security clearance to visit, are you still going to take the risk to visit?

SeverusSnape:
There are places that are too risky for the president to visit and chibok is one of those places, Even though he wants to, His CSO have the power to prevent him.