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Insecurity: Tinubu’s Wife, Remi, Berates APC Sen., Adeyemi For Criticising Buhari Govt
- “We shouldn’t pretend that we need foreign support now”
Remi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos central, has questioned the rationale behind criticism of president Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration handling of insecurity in the country by Smart Adeyemi, her All Progressives Congress (APC) colleague from Kogi west,
For weeks on end, there’s been an inexorable rise in violent attacks and criminal activities in the country, from Boko Haram insurgency to banditry and kidnapping.
Sani Bello, Niger governor, said on Monday that Boko Haram has heaved its flag in a Shiroro LGA of the state, Shiroro is about three hours drive to Abuja.
Contributing to a motion on the situation, Adeyemi said the country has never been this unstable and troubled since the civil war.
The Nigerian civil war was fought between the federal troops and the breakaway eastern region of yore from 1967 to 1970.
Speaking during plenary on Tuesday, Adeyemi said Nigeria was facing the worst instability and crisis since the civil war.
“This is the worst instability we are facing. In fact this is worse than the civil war,” he said.
Miffed by Adeyemi’s assertion and in an attempt to downplay the seriousness of the issue raised, Tinubu interrupted him, asking: “Are you in PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)? Are you a wolf in sheep’s clothing?”
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Adeyemi, however, ignored her comments and continued: “We cannot pretend that we are capable of handling the situation in our hands. America, as powerful as they are, when the pandemic came, it came to a point China came to their rescue.
“We shouldn’t pretend that we need foreign support now. Billions of naira has been voted for security services and nothing is coming out of it.
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Adeyemi, who pledged his unalloyed loyalty to the party, said the situation had got out of hand and that matters of national significance could longer be swept under the rug of political affiliation.
“I’m a party man and I’m supporting APC but it has gotten to a point that as supporters we cannot keep quiet.”
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