Buhari To Replies Obasanjo On Insecurity: You Are Not Patriotic

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday replied Former President
Olusegun Obasanjo on his open letter addressing the insecurity in
the country.

According to the President, critics of insecurity in the country
are not patriotic.

Obasanjo had on Monday in an open letter to President Buhari
criticized the insecurity, saying the killings cannot be swept
under the carpet.

Obasanjo, who said he was very worried over high level of
insecurity in the country, had called on the President to take
decisive action, stating:

“To be explicit and without equivocation, Mr. President and
General, I am deeply worried about four avoidable calamities:.
abandoning Nigeria into the hands of criminals who are all being
suspected, rightly or wrongly, as Fulanis and terrorists of Boko
Haram type.

“Spontaneous or planned reprisal attacks against Fulanis which
may inadvertently or advertently mushroom into pogrom or
Rwanda-type genocide that we did not believe could happen and yet
it happened.

“Similar attacks against any other tribe or ethnic group
anywhere in the country initiated by rumours, fears, intimidation
and revenge capable of leading to pogrom;

“Violent uprising beginning from one section of the country and
spreading quickly to other areas and leading to dismemberment of
the country.”

Speaking during an audience with the National Executives of the
Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) in the State House on Tuesday,
The President, who did not specifically mention Obasanjo’s name,
said that those criticising the cases of insecurity in the country
are not patriotic Nigerians.

According to him, every country around the world are facing one
security challenge or the other.

He pointed out that there are new challenges of banditry and
kidnapping around the globe.

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