Disturbed by recurring cases of security breaches, particularly, in parts of the North and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, Nigerians have continued to express deep concern over efforts being made by the police to fish out masterminds.

In charging the various arms of the nation’s security formations, for prompt action, some Nigerians have not only condemned certain inflammatory remarks by supposedly well-placed individuals and statesmen but also insisted that sources of such unguided vituperations, capable of inciting the manner of senseless bombings, be thoroughly investigated.

Of particular need for mention are comments by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar that those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable in veiled reference to the increasing popularity of the incumbent President.

The former Vice President, who emerged as consensus candidate of the North, within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was quoted as making the remark to dramatise his opposition to the aspirations of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the party’s presidential primaries, instead of stepping aside for Northern aspirants.

In whatever context in which ex-VP Atiku coughed those obvious threats, they are ill-advised because the issue of zoning and rotation within the PDP has long been addressed and decided upon, by the National Executive Committee (NEC), the highest decision making organ of the party, and peopled by representatives of all state and zonal executives, governors, and key political officials.

That being so, and the same appropriately endorsed by the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), it is indeed reckless for any aspirant, of the stature of Atiku to impute dictatorial tendency on the part of President Jonathan, and thus threaten to make Nigeria ungovernable, through the various security breaches?

It is even more condemnable for Atiku to threaten violent change because the electioneering process is still on and thus far, open and competitive, as all aspirants, Jonathan and Atiku inclusive traverse the length and breath of the nation for support among elected delegates without let or hindrance.

That indeed is the nature of intra-party politics, and thus wrong for the former Vice President to impute bias even before the primaries, billed for next week to select a flag bearer.

without prejudice to the eventual outcome of the PDP primaries, the former Vice President’s comments smack of violent vituperations of bad loser or one searching for reasons to explain a failure in the future.

That is why Atiku’s threat of making violent change inevitable is today being associated with various bombings and security breaches on the land.

Although, The Tide is reluctant to share that, rightly or wrongly,  Nigerians insisting on investigating the former Vice President, have a point because of the statesman’s shocking reactions to the deadly new year eve blast at Mogadishi Barracks, Abuja a national calamity, where, the presidential aspirant condemned the Federal Government instead of the  master-minds of the bombings.

In fact, the content and context of Atiku’s reaction, to many could pass, as a prepared speech in anticipation of the bomb blasts.

This is why The Tide shares the anxiety of most Nigerians that no leader should be over-looked in the search for culprits, Atiku inclusive, so that Nigerians can approach the next round of elections in a secured environment.