by Aye Dee
Can someone please advice Goodluck Jonathan to fire Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as the Minister of Defense, Sambo Dasuki as the National Security Adviser, Alex Badeh as the Chief of Defence Staff, and Kenneth Minimah as Chief of Army Staff.
It is an open secret that Gusau and Sambo are both IBB ‘boys’. IBB overthrew Buhari because the latter dismissed Gusau from the Army and was going to court martial him, Sambo was IBB’s ADC. Both men are in the GEJ admin as anti-coup bulwarks, and as IBB’s eyes and ears. It is also common knowledge that former Nigerian Air Force cargo plane pilot, Alex Badeh in his prior posting as head of the Presidential fleet ensured GEJs plane did not crash, is GEJ’s drinking buddy and is generally dull, and totally politically unambitious, as CDS he isn’t a political threat to the administration.
Lastly, anyone who has bothered to look beneath the surface knows that Kenneth Minimah was appointed as Chief of Army Staff (leapfrogging 31 of his superiors) due to geo-political loyalties (both he and GEJ are from the SS) and not any inherent competence or ability on his part.
GEJ needs to realize his Presidency has crossed the Rubicon of fighting or taking flight in the face of a full scale armed conflict that has already consumed a significant portion of the nation.
Having said the above, isn’t it time that GEJ woke up and realized that Nigeria’s military problem has gone beyond mere coup plotting? Entrusting the Armed Forces to people who won’t plan coups or allow coups to happen but can’t engage in warfare against an invading army that is determined to destroy Nigeria is like guarding the front door of a house when 10 windows and 2 back doors are wide open.
Under GEJ and his military leaders, while there is an army of 50,000 well armed Boko Haram fighters holding 300,000 people hostage in the NE, Nigeria’s troops in that Area of Operations refuse to fight. Some refuse deployment, instead choosing to engage in full blown mutiny within the barracks, and those who do get deployed into combat zones abandon their garrisons, drop their weapons and equipment and blend in with the civilian population the moment the enemy shows up. A whole battalion even fled into Cameroon, choosing the path of cowardice to that of fighting for their country and its Commander in Chief.
GEJ needs to realize his Presidency has crossed the Rubicon of fighting or taking flight in the face of a full scale armed conflict that has already consumed a significant portion of the nation.
If he doesn’t immediately replace his present Security leaders with COMPETENT personnel immediately, it seems the world shall soon wake up to an Abubakar Shekau broadcast from Aso Rock itself.
No sane person wants that outcome.
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