Buhari: Don't Blame Nigerian Military For Boko Haram

Former Head of State, General Muhamadu
Buhari (rtd) has said that the Nigerian military
should not be blamed for not being able to
crush the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging
north-eastern Nigeria.
According to Buhari, the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, led federal government is to be blamed.
The former Head of State made the statement at the
weekend in Enugu while addressing the state's
delegates of All Progressives Congress (APC) to the
forthcoming presidential primaries of the party.
Buhari told the delegates that Nigerian military are
ill equipped despite the abundance of wealth being
wasted on trivial issues by the government in
power.
Gen Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari , a leading presidential aspirant in APC,
added that "soldiers have been complaining that
they are ill equipped, in spite of the trillions spent
on defence budget in the last three years."
Buhari who was accompanied by former Minister of
Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El Rufai,
former Minister of Information, Chief Tony Momoh,
Chief Audu Ogbe, among other key officials of the
party, noted that next year would be another
landmark year in the history of the country.
"If you consider the foreign revenue Nigeria has
generated since 1999, you will be shocked at how
inefficient and corrupt PDP has been. Soldiers have
been saying they are ill equipped, yet trillions have
been voted for defence in the last three years," he
said.
He added: "If we don't vote out PDP, it will vote out
Nigerians and we will all be the losers. Cast your
votes for us so that we can all fight this inefficiency
and corruption."

Posted By David Aniemeka