Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has said Nigeria needs strong leadership to overcome its security challenges and not someone who relies on luck to rule.
“What the President must realise is that nobody can run a country by luck. You can win election by luck, but you cannot be lucky all the time. So Goodluck as his name implies should look beyond luck in handling the affairs of this country. What Nigeria requires is a strong leadership that will stop all this nonsense or in the alternative, negotiate from the point of strength with the insurgents,” Kwankwaso said.
Kwankwaso said this yesterday, while speaking with reporters at his office. He advised the presidency to reduce the level of hatred and bitterness among Nigerians, if the government was actually interested in resolving the problem of insecurity.
According to him, the real cause of insecurity in the country is bad leadership being experienced in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) -led government, noting that the inability of President Jonathan to tackle the issue of insurgency in the North and insecurity in other parts of the country has exposed Jonathan’s incompetence to preside over the affairs of Nigeria.
“Now, they are just using propaganda. Look at the issue of the abduction of Chibok girls. The schoolgirls have been in captivity and they kept arguing —where are the names, who are they, where are the photographs; they didn’t believe that over 200 children were abducted. Haba! Even if it is 20 tortoise or goats! Won’t you look for them? One of the reasons I love this country is that we have people of integrity in all the regions, in all the states like my former colleague, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili.
“This is somebody who worked at the World Bank, but now she has devoted her time to the cause of these girls. She is not from this part of the country, but she felt she had to take the bull by the horns and that is what we are seeing in developed countries — fight injustice, save people, help them, if you have the opportunity to do so. They sent some hawks to go and stop the protesters. The other day, I went to Abuja, I saw an advertisement, while Ezekwesili was saying ‘BringBackOurGirls’, some people were saying ‘vote for us, we want to stay and maintain the status quo; look at my photograph, I am smiling.’ And they don’t know time is of essence.
“At the moment, the country is in a critical situation, and if this madness is not stopped and if it is allowed to degenerate, and becomes the order of the day, whereby innocent people are being killed every day, then something is wrong with the leadership.
“What Nigeria requires now is a strong leadership that can effectively tackle the insurgency in the North-East, and other topical security challenges,” he said.
Kwankwaso then suggested that one major way to restore normalcy in the northern part of the country was to draw out a Marshal Plan for the region, and urged Jonathan to stamp his feet as the Commander –In-Chief of the Armed Forces, to tackle this security issue.
The governor challenged the President to think seriously about the statement made by General T.Y Danjuma, (rtd), who suggested that President Jonathan lead Nigerians to Sambisa Forest to rescue the abducted Chibok girls. [Vanguard]
Good talk mr Governor wil need sombody of ur caliber.. Jonathan is a blood sucker is not worth to be president of a country he worth to be in the midst of animal nd rules them
@sheriff,Do u fink u nd ur uncle, kwankwaso r doin d ryt tin criticizin Mr president.Kwankwaso is too rude nd is a bad leader cos only bad leaders criticise other leaders.As d messaiah his claimin 2 b,wot hs bin his achievement jst 4 kano state,notin,i’m sure he nos much abt bh.Get ds into ur skull no amt of his chanting cn stop Gej.
Txs u my broda 4ur wise talk, cos av neva seeing all dis trash b4, ruling is not by force, allow oda people 2 try maybe dia wud b a change, simple!
Pls tell him oo!
Txz sir
You are a big fool sheriff. If you can insult your president like this then you are an animal. As for kwankwaso,let him stop the bombings in Kano state where he is incharge first b4 pointing fingers at the president. he is only envious and confused and can never rule this country or acheive a quater of what the president have acheived.GEJ is GOD sent for this country and he loves Nigeria as whole so RIDE ON SIR. We that are with you are much more than those against you.
Shiriff and bimboo are animals, foolish people
Sheriff….in my 19 years of existence on earth….i ve never seen a bigger fool…..kwakwanso is running is mouth like a tape being fast forwarded by a disc jockey…wat has he achieved in kano….he has not been able to stop insurgency in kano..and he is making a noise….he should go get a life
This kwankwanso or whatever he called himself shld go and jump into a lagoon or better still run into an overload trailer and die for all I care. The kano state where u are the governor, what hv u done to stop bombings or insecurity in ur state? U want president to come to kano, borno etc. with matchets & guns and fight ur untrained and possessed children called boko haram. from what l understand in this ur mumu statements is bitterness and envy towards the president. U and ur colleagues promised to make this country ungovernable for him if he wins and u succeeded and now u are here running ur useless mouth. Are you now the one competent to rule Nigeria in hardway or ur colleague? U want our president to come to sambisa forest so that u and ur colleagues wil bomb him there and tell us that boko haram did it. He is not going. U and ur northern governors can go first and tells us the outcome of it ok
Thank u my dear,(mike)and u (sslove) as for sheriff} he should go to any zoo of his choice and ask the zoologist to show him an animal that is called sherisff,b/c i ve desided not to be exchanging words with inconsqenciall human beings like him and his likes neither do i regard any words from a baseless and unclassify people like kwonkwoso and his likes whose duty is to sponsor terrorism and numerious atrocities actoff envy and mans inhumanity to man,which i believe they will never go unponished by the grace of God,and i told people to pray for longlife so as to see who laghs at last in this game,we shall also withness the ones that will die of hypertenssive complications without assassination aleagation,the gods are watching.
Sheriff….lol,it seems kwankwaso promisd u or any of ur relatns any post if he becoms president.u r d biggest fool in al planets.let me adviz u,enta a zoo as d animal u r,let dt confused bh leader,cal kwankwaso becom ur president there cos his name means badluck.and we d gud pple of 9ja won’t allow him.Oga Jona…abeg kari dey gooo,we dey ur bak.