Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, took a swipe at his former party, All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the mismanagement of the nation’s economy by the administration on the watch of President Muhammadu caused the rising insecurity in the country.
Speaking on the security situation in the country on Monday when members of the south-south working committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) paid him a visit, Obaseki said the “lawlessness and indiscipline” of APC led Nigeria to the present situation.
The governor, however, noted that the country could not tackle the rising insecurity, if the “structural imbalance” in the federal system was not addressed.
He added that only the PDP could help President Muhammadu Buhari solve the challenges bedeviling the country.
“The way the ruling party has managed and mismanaged the economy of this country is the reason why we are having the level of insecurity that we are faced with today,” TheCable reported Obaseki to have said.
“The lawlessness, indiscipline by the ruling party has brought us to where we are. We run a federation. We have three tiers of government: federal, state and local governments.
“Why should security be exclusive to the federal level? What happened to the other two? Until we address that structural imbalance, we are not going to be able to deal with security at its core.
“The country has a major problem and it’s only the PDP that can help the president solve the problem, not his party.
“Let us, as party men and Nigerians, help rescue the nation and call on those that have the capacity to rescue Nigeria. Security is local and we can rescue this nation; this is why Edo is relatively peaceful.”
Obaseki’s latest comment came on the heels of the first controversy he caused over claims weeks that about N60 billion was printed in March to support allocation to states — he had also said Nigeria was s in “huge financial trouble”.
However, the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) haf since denied the governor’s claim. (With reports from Thecable)
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