Rep Cautions Buhari Over Comments

Member of the National Assembly representing Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency, Dr. Sokonte Davies, has criticised former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) over his recent comments on Boko Haram and the 2015 general elections, saying, the comments are sad, unfortunate and unbecoming of a former Head of State of the country.

According to him, the former Head of State is supposed to be more circumspect in his utterances, instead of using them to fan the embers of war, and parading himself as a sectional war lord, champion and hero.

Davies who made the remarks in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt described Buhari’s outburst as one of the most irresponsible statements from a former Head of State in the country, and wondered why  security agencies  had not arrested and interrogated him for threatening violence and bloodbath.

The lawmaker noted that Buhari is not as clean as some people want Nigerians to believe, alleging that a lot of things happened under the former Head of State when he was Minister of Petroleum, stressing that his comments about the Federal Government were typical of opposition members whom he described as narrow-minded and naïve, “who are grumbling because they feel they are the ones that should have been in government”.

While decrying sectional politics in the country, Davies opined that only true nationalists were qualified to rule the country, as the North or South alone could not make any Nigerian the President of the country.

The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Land Transport noted that Nigerians who were of the view that they could lead the country based on their sectional inclinations and cleavages were merely day-dreaming, and urged them to have a rethink as well as strive to become true nationalists.

According to him, “the North alone can not make anybody |President. The South alone cannot make anybody President”.

If you want to be President, he said, no matter how big you are, the ground rules are there.

“It is so sad for somebody like Buhari in particular after being  Head of State to begin to see himself as a sectional champion and hero”, he said. 

Davies equally noted that the country’s democracy which on May 29, 2012 would be 13 years has steadily made progress inspite of what he described as political, social, economic and security challenges,and urged Nigerians to continue to be hopeful and prayerful, as well as  wary of those who would seek for their votes in future, people he said were today threatening fire and brimstone.