ABUJA – The National
Secretary of the Congress for
Progressive Change, CPC,
Engr. Buba Galadima
Wednesday accused
President Goodluck Jonathan
of politically victimising
Borno, Yobe and Adamawa
States by declaring state of
emergency.
Galadima alleged that the
affected states were
opposed to the style of
leadership by Jonathan,
because they did not support
his 2011 election ambition.
Galadima said: ”Our reaction
is simply that we issued a
statement yesterday, PDP and
its government said that we
are rumour mongers, that
there was nothing in place,
and now it stands out that
we are right that the
president was considering
declaring state of emergency.
In the course of the
president’s broadcast, he
made mention of some
certain states, and most of
these states are known to be
politically opposed to his
style of leadership.
“The states that the
president imposed state of
emergency are the states
that did not support him in
his 2011 elections. And from
the broadcast the president
is giving up himself order
than security of lives and
property for all intents and
purposes that he did not
secure before this state of
emergency, and those
soldiers do not have absolute
authority in those states
without interferences from
the civil authority his 2010
ambition.
“It is our hope that the
president is not using this
state of emergencies in some
of these states that are not in
support of his policies to
settle political scores. We are
also afraid that the security
agencies will not go out of
their way to use this state of
emergency as a licence to
maim, kill and wipe out
communities that the
president himself feels is
opposed to his political
ambition. It is our hope that
security agencies.
He said the action of soldiers
sent by the federal
government in these states
led to the spate of
insurgence experienced in
the country, whereby they
decided to pick up arms
against the government.
“The insecurity was not
caused by the so-called Boko
Haram, but by the
government who were
killing people to make them
to pick arms against
government. This is my
standard as somebody from
Borno and Yobe. My people
has been short-changed and
killed arbitrarily.
“If the government continue
to do what they have been
doing they will make more
enemies for themselves. No
soldier has the right to shoot
above the hips according the
rules of engagement. We
asked government to
dialogue with them and they
refused.
“I advised government on
June 9, 2009, that they have
no option than to dialogue
with this people, but they
refused until when it was
too late, then they over
stepped their bounds by
killing innocent people,”
Galadima stated.