Former Chief of Army Staff and prominent Yoruba leader, General Alani Akinrinade has lashed out on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over the slow pace of governance.
Akinrinade spoke at a lecture organized for the first year anniversary of the administration of Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN.
The former NADECO chieftain also lamented the registration of toddlers by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), adding that it was worrisome for the country.
Akinrinade who sounded dejected over the current situation in the country, appealed to Governors in the Southern states to stand up against the activities of herdemen.
He said “May I appeal to the governors in the southern states to stand up strongly together before more happen and we descend further into anarchy.”
The former Minister said the country had been moving in a slow pace in the past two years under President Buhari.
“The past two or so years in our country appears to me like a tragic thriller movie in a slow motion, full of abject cruelty of the highest order of barbarity, edged on by those we elected or selected to give us governance.
“The clock has started ticking again to the periodic bloody ritual of elections without the electorate,” Akinrinade noted.
He wondered why INEC would submit to threats and intimidation by registering toddlers in the Northern part of the country.
He said “Or, how do you rationalize the INEC admitting recently that they were registering hoards of toddlers for elections in the northern part of Nigeria on the pains of death?
“What then happened to our humongous financial outlay on Seven Infantry Army Divisions, a mighty Air Force and a Navy that supposedly rule our portion of the seas, hundreds of thousands of policemen and numerous other gun totting formations, when mere threat of violence is all that is required to hold sway over law and order? Or are all these for Python dancing?
“Could INEC not have withdrawn their services and closed down all their facilities? Collaborators?
“Herdsmen have been on the rampage for several months now, killing, maiming, raping, burning, kidnapping, name it, all the hallmark of those who never exited the animal farm.
“It was recently, when our president was called out as the patron of his kinsmen, the herdsmen, that letters of complaints and its denials between the federal executive, the police and governors in distress started circulating that he gave a feeble, unclear, half hearted order to stop the carnage.
“Let us not allow history to deliver its verdict after many more have died, but I am certainly tired and ashamed of being classified as a barbarian”, “Akinrinade said.
The Guest Speaker at the event, Prof. Akin Oyebode said the 2014 constitutional confab had addressed the issues confronting the country.
Oyebode said it was worrisome that the confab report had gone to waste given the attitude of the present government.
He blasted Garba Shehu for describing the Confab as a job for the boys.
The erudite scholar disclosed that it was insulting for Shehu to describe such gathering as a job for the boys, adding that over fourty retired military officers, arrays of senior lawyers and other professional bodies were at the Confab.
In his lecture, titled “Rethinking the Nigeria Nationhood: Issues and Challenges”, Oyebode said the country’s journey to nationhood would be shortened if wrong leaders were put in power.
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