Zwingina: Buhari Receiving Inaccurate Information from Security Chiefs
As violence by killer herdsmen continues to increase in Nigeria, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former Director General of the MKO Abiola Campaign Organisation, Sen. Jonathan Zwingina, has accused the country’s security chiefs of sabotaging President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to stem the rising tide of in security in the country.
Zwingina, a former senator representing Adamawa South Senatorial District, noted that the security chiefs “are giving B uh ari inaccurate information. Insecurity has worsened under the current administration .”
He said this in an exclusive interview with THISDAY, stating that while he was not absolving Buhari of any blame, Nigerians should hold the security chiefs for the wanton killings going in the country.
According to him, many of the security heads portrayed the current violence as clash es between herdsmen and farmers but to him it “was an invasion of people sleeping in their homes .”
The two-time senator said, “I will say he is not being assisted to do enough. No one president alone solves problems. They don’t give him accurate information, by not giving the real narrative and changing the language to make the situation look less threatening.
“Forexample, you hear there was a clash but what we had really was not a clash. It was an invasion of people sleeping in their homes. I will blame the ring–security ring–around him for that perpetuation of inadequacy.
“I am not absolving him (Buhari). I am saying that the commander-inchief is not being fed with adequate, accurate and realistic information to take the right decision. Before the commander-in-chief goes to the field he has to take the right persons. He has trusted the security chiefs to do that and some of them obviously are not doing that – they’re not doing enough oft hat.”
Zwingina said it was important for the president to rejig the nation’s security architecture in order to effectively address the worsening insecurity, urging Buhari to get people who have the right ideas and approach for a positive change in the current security crisis.
He noted that it “is the greatest challenge the A PC government is facing. I agree entirely. Even as an APC chieftain I do agree that insecurity has not got the attention from the security chiefs as expected and that it is unfortunately getting worse.
“This, the security chiefs should admit as much themselves. “Therefore, we are throwing this challenge to the government torejig and change the narrative of how to resolve the security situation even if the attackers are coming from outside of Nigeria. It is the duty of the government to block them and stop them – we cannot shift the blame at all,” the senator argued.