A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Yusuf Abubakar Dingyadi, has warned against single-handedly blaming the federal government under President Bola Tinubu for the excalating Insecurity in the North-west.
He said instead the Northwest governors should be blamed for the escalating insecurity bedeviling the region. Presenting a paper on ‘Insecurity, politics and democracy in Nigeria; A reflection of yesterday and our challenge of today” organized by Northern Coalition Group for Transparency and Justice in Kaduna on Thursday, the PDP chieftain alleged that, the body language and constant bandits’ attacks in some areas were a clear testament of political colouration by the concerned leaders at the detriment of lives and properties of the people they sworn oaths to protect.
He lamented that, some of the governors have turned selves to “travel agents’, booking and leaving the country, abandoning their states, defending on zoom meetings and conferences, while their subjects are subjected to incessant attacks and kidnapping by the enemies within.
To him, “Majority of our governors especially in the Northwest are not ready to help the federal government in its fight against insecurity in the region. “These are the same people that have traveled to developed world, leaving solutions behind in order to attend security meetings without being able to replicate what they have learned back home in such a way that their subject can embark on legitimate businesses.
“There are also credible people within the country, many of whom are professionally capable of giving advise and guiding on the way forward. .
“We have not been able to see what these governors are doing with the security votes because the region is still hot bed for insecurity news in the country despite billions of naira allocated to it.
“For example, how do we describe a situation whereby a governor will abandon his people for about a month and stay in Abuja while the people he sworn to protect are being killed daily without returning home to do the needful? “Some of these governors have refused to attend regional northern governors forum meetings to discuss solutions.
Is it not funny that the same governors are lamenting that the FG is not giving them enough security support? He queried. He further argued that “instead of blaming President Tinubu, instead of blaming the FG, why can’t they put politics aside, sat with the two defence ministers who are also from the Northwest and collectively chart a lasting way forward.
“Look at what is happening in Zamfara state, where political intrigues has taken over the real issue of fighting insecurity; people of Zamfara are more important than politics because Zamfara is the epic centre of banditry.
