A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of threatening another civil war in Nigeria.
He alleged that the President is playing the card of ethnicity in dealing with the security challenges the country is facing at the moment.
Omokri said Buhari is not handling the current security situation in the country correctly if he will beg herdsmen to stop acts of terrorism but threaten the entire southeast region with another civil war.
“Exactly a month ago, General @MBuhari was “appealing” to herdsmen and bandits to stop their acts of terror. A month later, another Buhari is threatening the Southeast with Nigerian Civil War 2.”
“How can one man have strikingly different reactions to similar events?,” he wrote on Twitter.
Exactly a month ago, General @MBuhari was “appealing” to herdsmen and bandits to stop their acts of terror. A month later, another Buhari is threatening the Southeast with Nigerian Civil War 2
Omokri made the submission in his reaction to part of President Buhari’s statement on Tuesday when he received a briefing from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on the series of attacks on facilities of the electoral body around the country.
The part of the President’s speech attracting angry reactions from Omokri and some other Nigerians reads: “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War.
Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”
Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.
I have assured INEC that we will make available to them everything they need to operate efficiently, so that no one will say we don’t want to go, or that we want a third term. There will be no excuse for failure. We will meet all of INEC’s demands.
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) June 1, 2021
Several INEC offices have been burnt down by hoodlums in recent times and the President warned that his government will crackdown on the perpetrators.