We’ve Lost Faith In Buhari’s Govt – Arewa Forum

Emmanuel Yawe, national publicity secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), says President Muhammadu Buhari’s has been woeful in addressing the security challenges of the country.

Ekohotblog reports that Yawe said this when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, on Wednesday.

He noted that Buhari had been unable to replicate what he achieved concerning security of the country when he served in the army and when held sway as the head of state.

He said people decided to vote for Buhari instead of Jonathan during the the 2015 elections because they were impressed with Buhari’s antecedent.

Yawe said the widespread belief then was that Buhari had what it takes to secure the country owing to his feats as a military man.

“When the elections were to be conducted in 2015, the two principal candidates — Goodluck Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari — some of us looked at the two candidates,” he said.

“What was disturbing the north then, there were feelings of insecurity. So when we looked at these two candidates, we said well Jonathan was a university lecturer before he went into politics, before he became local government chairman, governor of his state, then vice president to president …all by luck…. his name stuck to him.

“But Buhari was a general who fought in the war to keep Nigeria in the 60s and 70s, then head of state.

Yawe recalled how Buhari dealt with chadian insurgents who invaded some parts of Nigeria and usurped the land in 1983, adding that he was sent to cover the incident by the now defunct New Nigerian Newspaper in 1983

“And we were impressed with this. We said this is the man who is going to secure Nigeria but what has happened? On a daily basis when we hold our meetings in Kaduna, we keep receiving reports …every state in the north…. Every state in the north is not secure.

“Is it not the man we had so much faith in? If he couldn’t do any other thing, at least he will be able to secure the north and the country.

“How can I have faith in someone who presides over this kind of …this state of affair…? When he was coming to become president, I had faith in him because I witnessed how successful he was in chasing away enemies coming to Nigeria.

“But now, 300 people kidnapped in his home state.”.

He disclosed that people are killed on a daily basis in Taraba, noting that the state is in utter chaos and why the troubling incidents are not reported or given media attention is because there’s no oil in the state.

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He said he had never felt this unsafe before, adding that even in the fearsome and dreadful days of Abacha he drove all over the north without having to look over his shoulder.

He “What can I say is you have seen what has been happening to our people. I used to drive from Maiduguri sometimes to Sokoto alone in the car, sometimes at night, nothing will happen to me”