A former Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, has called for the immediate sacking of all service chiefs in the country over their alleged poor handling of war against insurgents.
Gbagi, who is also a governorship aspirant in Delta State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, said in other clime, some of the heads of the security agencies would have resigned on their own.
He particularly queried the continued staying in office by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, whose house in Vintim, Mubi, Adamawa State, has been taken over by insurgents.
He also wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan would continue to retain the services of Chief of Army staff, Lt.Gen. Kenneth Minimah with the way he said the army had been handling the insurgents.
Gbagi, who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said it was scandalous that the home town of Badeh had fallen into the hands of the insurgents, yet Badeh was still happy to remain in office.
He said, “The seizure of some Nigerian towns and villages in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states by Boko Haram is a national embarrassment and highly regrettable.
“I wonder why the Service Chiefs, the DG of DSS, Inspector General of Police and other heads of security agencies are still staying in Abuja. They should be sent to reclaim those towns and villages seized by Boko Haram.
“These people are being maintained with taxpayers money, so they should go ahead and win the war or be flushed out. They go about with unusually heavy security; meaning that they are more afraid of Boko Haram than the people they are supposed to protect.”
The PDP aspirant also wondered why the security agents thought that the agencies they head is either their private comp aides or that it is meant to serve a few privileged Nigerians.
He particularly condemned the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba for withdrawing the security details of the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mallam Aminu Tambuwal.
According to him, the withdrawal of the Speaker’s security aides was undemocratic and uncalled for, adding that Tambuwal enjoyed the same democratic rights with other elective members of the ruling party.
He said because the speaker defected to the opposition party, the All a Progressives Congress was not a tangible reason why his security details must be withdrawn.
Gbagi wondered why the police did not withdraw the security details of the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko who defected from the Labour Party to the PDP with all members of the party in the State House of Assembly, including the speaker.
He said, “Tambuwal has the constitutional right to defect, more so there was no reason why the IGP should withdraw his security details. People should stop paying eye service and stop heating up the polity.
“Tambuwal remained the Speaker, so the same thing that applied to Mimiko should apply to him. People should stop leading the President astray with anti democratic tendencies.
“His defection to the opposition party does not amount to crime against the nation. It is his right to do so. We should be careful of how we do things.”
Gbagi called on President Goodluck Jonathan to be weary of the people he would be taking advice from, adding that there could be some fifth columnist in the corridors of power who he said were there to misinform him.
He described the authomatic presidential ticket of the PDP given to Jonathan by the party, Asa Greek gift which he said the governors used as it was a trap to hold the President to ransom.
According to him, “It’s a contraption being used by the out going PDP governors to entrap the President, as it is evident in their insistence on automatic tickets to go to the Senate.
“The governors are behaving as if the Senate has become a dumping ground for state governors. Given free and fair elections, the present crop of outgoing PDP governors cannot win election into the Senate.
“The President slaughter democracy because of some friends or because he wants to build friendship with these governors.”
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