Nigerians need Buhari now more than ever before –– Amaechi

As the nation suffers the pains inflicted by insurgency daily, the DG of Buhari Campaign Organisation, Gov Rotimi Amaechi has said the country needs a strong-willed leader like General Muhammadu Buhari urgently to come in and contain terrorism and other vices in the country.

Amaechi who stated this at an interactive session with journalists in Lagos said when Chadian rebels invaded Borno State in the past, it was Buhari that chased them away, saying it takes a strong leader to achieve such security feat.

In his words, “How many Nigerians remember that Buhari is a strong leader? You need a strong leader to chase away Boko Haram or Boko Haram will chase us away. There are reports that 32 persons have been killed in Bauchi and Gombe, so you need a Buhari to actually fight the insurgents. 

“The attitude of the federal government that it is a northern business is bad. Let them go there. It may not be what they intend but that is the way people read it. Whether people say it or not, you will see clearly that the federal government has not done well enough in the area of insurgency. 

“It is not because we have a bad military. Our soldiers are well trained. It is because they are not well funded. Between the period that the money gets to the military and the period it is released, some amounts of money disappear.

“So, we have to deal with the issue of corruption and that is where the military is having problem. Because if they are not properly equipped, they cannot fight insurgency.

“You want to kill 50 military officers who are saying please equip us properly; we can’t go to the battle front without the right weapon; now you are sending a soldier to fight a man with RPG and you gave him old AK47 that cannot even shoot. You are risking his life. They have a right to protest that. You don’t kill them for that.”

Amaechi assured that a Buhari-led government if elected in 2015 will deal with issues realistically.