Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday evening vowed to ‘shock’ those behind insecurity in different parts of the country, especially in the South East region.
Buhari offered these strong words after receiving a briefing from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks on facilities of the electoral body across the country.
The president particularly warned those bent on destroying the country through promoting insurrection and burning down critical national assets.
‘I receive daily security reports on the attacks, and it is very clear that those behind them want this administration to fail,’ President Buhari said.
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‘Insecurity in Nigeria is now mentioned all over the world. All the people who want power, whoever they are, you wonder what they really want. Whoever wants the destruction of the system will soon have the shock of their lives. We’ve given them enough time.’
Buhari recalled that he visited all the 36 states of the country before the 2019 election, ‘and majority of the people believed me, and the election proved it.’
He pledged to continue leading the country in accordance with Constitutional provisions.
He said those misbehaving in certain parts of the country were obviously too young to know the travails and loss of lives that attended the Nigerian Civil War.
‘Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand. We are going to be very hard sooner than later.’
The President, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police have been changed, ‘and we will demand security from them.’
Buhari, while speaking on the dangers posed to future elections by the burning of INEC facilities, said he would give the electoral commission all it needed to operate, ‘so that no one would say we don’t want to go, or that we want a third term. There will be no excuse for failure. We’ll meet all INEC’s demands.’
In his briefing, Prof Yakubu said there have been 42 cases of attacks on INEC offices nationwide, since the last General Election.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK