‘Current security challenges occasioned by bad leadership’ - Chief Oyegun

The National chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Odigie Oyegun declared, yesterday, that the nation was sliding towards anarchy on account of the seeming inaction of the Federal Government over the activities of Boko Haram. 

Oyegun who made the assertion in Kano while on condolence visit to the Government and people of the state over last Friday’s bombing of the Kano Central mosque, noted that the current security challenges was occasioned by bad leadership. “My fear is that, we would wake up one day and have a nation overtaken by anarchy, we pray this would not happen before February, because all these rot was brought about by bad leadership, a leadership that cannot show courage when it mattered most”, Oyegun maintained.

The leader of the opposition party lamented that the “ordinary Nigerians are beginning to ask questions as to what is going on that people who were not identified with any ideological base now move freely with sophisticated arms, detonate bombs, spray bullets on people within the territory of an independent nation”.  He argued that all these are happening despite the fact that, “we have a leader, a leader that is totally unwilling, impotent, powerless to control the degenerating situation within our territorial borders as we gradually slide towards anarchy”

According to him, “the active connivance of those who ought to protect us under the circumstances have made the situation worse, and thereby failed to drive out the enemy of the state”. 

The former Governor of Edo state who bemoaned the security for not being proactive in the strategy to address the menace of Boko Haram, however assured that APC led administration would address the scourge.Oyegun who was accompanied on the visit by top stalwarts of the party had earlier paid a condolence visit on the emir, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusu II, and called for concerted effort to win the war on terror.