Former Military
Head of State and a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC,
General Muhamadu Buhari, over the weekend at Enugu while addressing delegates
of APC to the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party, said it was
wrong to blame Nigerian soldiers over the country’s inability to root out Boko
Haram insurgents. According to him,
since no attention had been paid to soldiers’ complaints about lack of
equipment to tackle the insurgents headlong, despite huge money voted for defense
sector.
He said, “Soldiers have been complaining that they are ill equipped, in
spite of the trillions budgeted for defense in the last three years. If you
consider the revenue Nigeria has generated since 1999, you will be shocked at
how inefficient and corrupt PDP has been. Soldiers have been saying they are
ill equipped, yet trillions have been voted for defense in the last three
years. If we don’t vote out PDP we will all be the losers. Cast your votes for
us so that we can all fight this inefficiency and corruption.”
He observed that
2015 would turn out to be another landmark year in the country’s history. He was accompanied by former Minister of
Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El Rufai and Chief Audu Ogbe.
General Chris
Eze (retd) who responded on behalf of other delegates, described Buhari as the
President Nigeria needed, noting that with him as President, Nigeria would once
again, be sure of having a Commander in Chief that knows his onion and
recalled how the Maitasine sect was driven
away from Nigeria into Chad during his (Buhari) reign as the Head of State.
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