Since President Goodluck Jonathan went to Kano and insulted Governor
Rabiu Kwankwaso, calling a fraud and all kinds of name, it has not been
easy. Governors who have issues with him have decided to speak up. The
war of words between the Presidency and Governor Murtala Nyako of
Adamawa State on genocide in the North is still raging.Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, lambasted Nyako for daring to challenge his boss, President Jonathan, and said Nyako did not deserve to be a governor given his utterances.
Nyako fired back, accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of being highly incompetent. Hear him:
“And we say to them you have full command and control of the armed forces and security outfits with all the intelligence units; investigate their activities, expose their patrons, sponsors and strategic commanders and arrest them.
“We also challenge them to expose their sources of arms. We still repeat the earlier questions we raised: How come the insurgents move about unchallenged at night in our states under the so-called emergency rule when we have a night time curfew in place?
“How come the insurgents operate for many hours unchallenged when we have military units all over the place? How come the insurgents move with a large convoy of vehicles through routes that have 24 hours military check points?
“How come statements by the Presidency and other authorities in Abuja are always at variance with realities on ground at the theatres of conflict? We want answers, not insults or empty rhetoric.”
The governor, who spoke through his Director of Press and Public
Affairs, Ahmed Sajoh, said the response by the Presidency is an
indication that those running the Federal Government were more confused
than ever.
Nyako stirred the hornet’s nest, on Friday when he wrote a letter to Northern Governors Forum, accusing the Federal Government of committing genocide in the North under the guise of fighting Boko Haram.
The Governor said he stood by his statement and challenged those who claim to have better sense of history to desist from semantics and address the core issues he raised in his letter to the northern governors.
He accused the Presidency of manufacturing information to implicate innocent Nigerians. Nyako added:
“Feeding the public with untruth is becoming a new culture in Abuja. The statement on the supposed rescue of the abducted girls is enough to prove that. It is a pity that responsible and supposedly educated people could manufacture statements and attribute them to others just to create an escape route from their glaring failures. None of the statements attributed to Governor Nyako by the Presidency was ever made by him. They were all manufactured for
