Our attention in the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has been drawn to the
utterly reckless and vitriolic response from the nation's Presidency to General
Muhammadu Buhari's (GMB) statesman-like communication on the unfortunate armed
attack on the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ado Bayero. In the said
response, Dr Doyin Okupe, the Presidential aide on Public affairs, was reported
to have described GMB's statement, which aptly mentioned the constitutional
provision that the 'purpose of government is the welfare and security of the
people', as irresponsible.
It is never surprising that Dr Okupe's communication is often laden on asininity
and acerbic profanity, what is befuddling is the quality of leadership of the
Nation's Presidency that tolerates such immeasurable indecency!
As a respected Nigerian said, "the greatest threat to Liberty is the absence of
criticism"; we believe that the bullish tactics of Dr Okupe in excoriating every
critic of this PDP-led regime is not only deleterious to a harmonious polity but
also an affront on personal liberty.
The pertinent questions are:
1, Does it not speak eloquently on the mind set of the President that he
encourages his aides to lambast a former Nigerian leader and respected Statesman
for volunteering his concern on the general insecurity in the Nation state?
2, Is it not a matter of grave concern that a respected monarch, with all the
retinue of security staff, being so gruesomely attacked on the street, there is
dimming hope for the ordinary Nigerian?
3, Does this latest Attack not confirm our well-reasoned belief that the
insecurity besetting the nation goes beyond religion and ethnicity?
4, Is it not ludicrous that, for more than one year since this President
declared infiltration of his government by Boko Haram, nobody (within his
government) has been handed over for prosecution?
5, Should this President not be accused of unduly overheating the polity by his
penchant for abdicating responsibility for the foreboding evil of insecurity in
the Land?
6, Is it not true that, rather than making the polity safe for the Citizens
(based on the oath of allegiance sworn to on 29th May, 2011), this President has
lately renewed his assault on our collective psyche with all the shenanigans of
devious politickying, ahead of 2015 elections?
7, Is it not time we asked the relevant question, with the yearly increase of
fatalities from the insecure Nigerian environment, when shall this president
transform from the rhetoric of vacuous promises to making the Nigerian polity
safe for lives and property?
As a responsible Political Party, we cannot be cowed by the indignity of a
loquacious Presidential Aide in failing to discharge our responsibility of
nudging those that bear Executive responsibility of the gaping need for security
(as enshrined in the Nation's statue). This, we believe, is the irreducible
minimum in our article of faith with the Nigerian people.
God Bless Nigeria.
Rotimi Fashakin (Engr)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC.
(Wednesday, 23rd January, 2013
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