Sylvester Idowu in Warri
A Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has challenged the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Shehu Garba to travel by road without escorts and experience the plight of motorists on the nation’s highways.
He reminded the Presidential Spokesman that Nigerians, especially, motorists and travellers now fast and pray before embarking on any journey as a result of the spike in insecurity across the country
The former Delta State governorship aspirant was reacting to Shehu Garba recent response to Bishop Hassan Kukah’s message, describing it as lacking the quality of Presidential spokesman.
Kukah had in his Easter message disclosed that Nigerians had lost faith in President Muhammadu’s administration, because of increased insecurity, religious intolerance and lack of unity.
Reacting to Kukah’s homily, Garba described his action as ungodly, while accusing him of playing partisan politics and insisting that security in the country had improved tremendously compared to pre-2015 Goodluck Jonathan’s era.
Speaking with Journalists in Warri yesterday, Onuesoke said Shehu needed not to have attacked Kukah over his message to Nigerians reason being that the Reverend Father said the truth everyone sees on daily basis in the country.
He said it was unfortunate that, rather than Garba and his colleagues to reflect on the lessons of Kukah’s Easter message, resorted to maligning the Man of God.
Onuesoke therefore dared mallam Garba Shehu to travel the roads without security escorts if he was honest with his argument that the state of insecurity in the nation was better than what it was before 2015, adding that a governor was attacked with his convoy not to talk of a Presidential aide.
“Garba Shehu seemed to be blinded to the fact that though the frequency of suicide bombings have reduced, the increase in wide spread kidnappings and general insecurity is thrice as bad. Where he got it wrong is that the Presidency claimed to have defeated Boko Haram, but every week students are being kidnapped, everyday herdsmen slaughter innocent citizens, soldiers are attacked in their bases and killed in dozens.
“For five days, our Air force have not had the guts to go and recover their crashed aircraft, because of insecurity even though they know the crash site yet Shehu is talking about improvement in security.
“Buhari has failed woefully and we don’t need a Kukah’s homily to know this. For the first time ever, Boko haram sacked military bases while soldiers ran into Cameroon. The Zamabari killings of 78 farmers never happened in the past. Abduction of school kids happened only once, but today, it is a routine. If Shehu feels 2021 is better, I challenge him to travel through Adamawa to Yobe, enroute Borno State. It is easier to sit in air conditioned room in Aso Rock and be propagating lies and falsehood”, he said.
