BMO to PDP: Stop irresponsible politicising of insecurity
By Ayo Fadimu
President Mohhamadu Buhari is doing everything possible as Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces to stem the tide, and confront the country’s security challenges headlong, according to the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO).
BMO made this assertion while reacting to a recent charge by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the President no longer deserves the designation of the Commander-In-Chief, given his ‘manifest failure to effectively lead from the front’ against bandits and terrorists ravaging the country.
In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO declared that President Buhari is fully in charge of the nation’s security and his administration, and called on the PDP to ‘desist from playing its usual irresponsible opposition and stop politicising security.’
According to the group, “PDP and others sponsoring the idea of the President’s incapability in handling and stemming the tide of insecurity, will not succeed as they are only perpetuating political mischief.
“The President is fully in charge. There cannot be room for the opposition party of the like of PDP who, in its 16 years of misrule, plunged the country into unending economic and security crisis, to cause disaffection and discord between the President and his aides in taking decisions on security matters,” it said.
“That PDP could make it seem like the President has abdicated his responsibilities and no longer deserves to be addressed as Commander-In Chief, but it is nothing but mischief taken too far.
“The President has never abdicated his duties on security matters to anyone as he is working hard to keep Nigeria and Nigerians out of the harm of terrorists.
“It is evident today that the government is using various social intervention support funds to support different categories of Nigerians as part of efforts in finding solutions to some of the root causes of security challenges in the country.
“Besides, the government is making giant strides in the provision of durable roads and railway infrastructure networks across the six geopolitical zones of the country, just as efforts are ongoing in boosting agricultural productions, making Nigeria the highest producer of rice in Africa.
“We therefore advise PDP to focus on the problems that are fast erasing it from the nation’s political map since it has never had any viable ideas to support the government’s efforts in finding a lasting solution to the country’s security challenges.
“Security matters are not for the government alone but the responsibility of all Nigerians of different ethnic and religious extraction, and we all must endeavour to use all powers at our disposal to support government’s ongoing war against all forms of criminality and terrorism in the country,” the statement added.
