Yakasai, Ezekwesili knock Buhari for ‘security racking brains’ comment


July 13, 2018
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja

A northern elder statesman and Chairman of the Northern Elders Council, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for saying his security chiefs are still racking their brains to tackle the ongoing killings in some parts of the country.

This is just as a former Minister of Education and co-Convener of the BringBack OurGirls movement, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, also chided the President over the comment, saying Buhari was “detached from reality.”

The President had on Wednesday urged Nigerians to be patient with him as his administration made efforts to tackle ongoing killings in parts of the country.

Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had said his security team were racking their brains to come up with a lasting solution.


The President had stated this while condemning the killings of scores of people, including a district head, in Gandi village in the Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State by bandits.

Yakasai, in an interview on Thursday, said if the security agencies did not yet have a firm programme to tackle the killings, it was a bad omen for the 2019 elections which Nigerians were looking forward to.


He said, “I feel disappointed because all this while; is there no clear-cut strategy on how to deal with these problems? You know that it started with Zamfara, and moved on to Kaduna. Then it got to Plateau, and then to Nasarawa, Benue and the rest of the country. Is it now that they are thinking of strategies on how to deal with the issues? This is a very serious issue, particularly as we are approaching the elections in 2019.

“If we do not have a firm programme to deal with the situation in these states, what do we do when the election comes? I am honestly not impressed.

“I read what the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said when he met with the President recently. He said the President was thinking of reorganising the security architecture. But what we heard from the Speaker is quite different from what the President is now saying. If the President wants to reorganise his security architecture, that means there must have been a blueprint on how to deal with the security situation. It is not a good commentary honestly.”

Meanwhile, on Twitter on Thursday, Ezekwesili criticised the President for asking for more patience.

She said, “Did he (Buhari) just say be patient? This is all we need as citizens to know that our President is very detached from the reality of what his people have been telling him to stop the killings. His security teams are racking their brains? This is too much.”


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Everyday with new security challenges,

Which they will come up with lasting solutions.

What they are doing now is just to arrest the situation at the moment which is not a lasting solution.

President should do the right thing now

hmm

They are still racking their brains after three years

Their is problem, maybe we are being daft or ignorant not to see a big problem coming up..
Last night i read about a recent slaughter of citizens in sokoto state. Sokoto of all places!.
But our leader was quick to push 30,000 police men to ekiti. While some states are under intense attack...

You can't give what u don't have! They don't have peace in them that's why it's very hard to come by. Their propagandist approach to gain power has somersaulted right b4 their eyes and that's why they are bereft of ideas in what ever they does.

Knock or punch, anyone will do for this retarded president. Buhari, a good man with bad intentions.

if it were to be GEJ era, you would hear 'clueless'.

Now the cluelessness is here

K

You can't expect PEACE in a multi ethnic country like Nigeria with Top security positions in the hands of Buhari's Fulani people.

buhariguy:
OK

Buharig is a slowpoke, just like his supporters.

modelmike7:
President should do the right thing now

Hope you are not referring to the dullard? How can you crown a clown and expect him to act like a king? Kolewerk!!

people are dying and they are racking their brains.
If this was during the era of Gej, the names that would have been rolling out from the Nigerian populace would have been something.
Since its buhari we are all tasked to be patient while he and his team are racking their brains.
Buhari and his team are all nitwits.

Any personal expecting Buhari to stop the killing he is sponsoring is still a learner.

Our security done turn chess game....

i read comments to buhari to stop killings, some say he should do something fast, buhari is neither slow, weak, bereft of ideas nor a coward, has anyone not think of it that it's really him behind the middle-belt killings, wasting time, diverting attentions for the killings to continue, like for example if someone as a deep cut with blood flowing from the injury the first thing is a first aid approach which is to stop the bleeding, or do u wait the person bleed out because u are trying to patient and racking ur dirty brain on what to do?, what buhari do to his brothers who for the record buhari has defended in the past right or wrong for being ruthless and unruly for trespassing on people's farmlands?, the complicity of buhari in these murders lies between his actions, comments and irresponsiveness to the killings comparing other factor like ipob.