by Azubuike Azikiwe
Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that only a leader like Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) could tackle insurgency and corruption in the country.
The governor, who is also the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, on Tuesday, December 23, implored Nigerians to vote out President Goodluck Jonathan at the upcoming elections.
Amaechi insinuated that the present administration is too weak, while adding that prayers alone could not rescue the nation from the brink of collapse and underdevelopment.
He made the comments while addressing journalists in Lagos at a press briefing on his blueprint in making certain that the party wins the 2015 presidential election.
He said: “You need a strong leader to chase away Boko Haram or Boko Haram will chase us away. There are reports that 32 persons have been killed in Bauchi and Gombe; so you need a Buhari to actually fight the insurgents.”
“Insurgency continues not because we have a bad military; our soldiers are well trained. It is because they are not well funded. The period when the money gets to the military and before it is released, somewhere, some amount of money disappears.”
“So, we have to deal with the issue of corruption and that is where the military is having problem. If they are not properly equipped, they cannot fight insurgency. So, we have to deal with the issue of corruption.”
“You want to kill 50 military officers who are saying, ‘please equip us properly, I can’t go to the battlefront without the right weapon. Now you are sending him to fight a man with RPG and you gave him an old AK47. He says you are risking his life. They have a right to protest that. You don’t kill them for that.
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