Insecurity : Dino Melaye Tasked Buhari to Talk to Nigerian, Nobody Voted for Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina

The stonewall silence between President Buhari and the electorate is surreptitiously worsening the anxieties and confusion of Nigerians on the state of insecurity across the country.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo held a monthly ritual briefing with the media, his successors, the late Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, held quarterly, more measured interactions. Any liberal democratic structure or dispensation  free flow of communication will always reduce friction in human relationships, including the one between the people and their leaders. Presidential chats is a useful tool for dousing the tension in the polity with words of hope and courage. Indeed it  creates an atmosphere of responsible leadership that considers it imperative to report back to the people who gave it the mandate in the first place.

Sadly, with the change of baton in 2015 when the All Progressives Congress (APC) took over the reins of power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the presidential chats have all but ceased, apart from the one granted by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2015. Since then, mum has been the word and the people have had to make do with the terse press statements issued from the president’s media advisers. This then necessitates asking the question whether President Buhari has been too absorbed in the country’s economic travails to spare a moment of media engagement for the benefit of the increasingly unhappy citizenry.

 In a recent interview granted on African Independent Television (AIT) Senator Dino Melaye lays bare articulate testimony of conscience and agitations of Nigerian on the current state of insecurity in the country which is becoming unbecoming. 

 He said :  “President Buhari needs to speak to Nigerians directly, he needs to communicate with the media. Our President is absent, and this has negative concomitant effects on the war against insecurity in the country.

“It is very pathetic but our President is not available. All we hear is presidency says; we didn’t vote for Garba Shehu or Femi Adesina.

“All our security challenges boils down to leadership failure. This man has shown more than enough evidence that he has no capacity to run this country.

“President Buhari should, in the interest of children yet unborn, in the interest of Nigerians that are dying, excuse us. It is simple, he should resign.

“It is expected they will speak like that, because both chambers of the national assembly, the leadership of the national assembly is a creation of the villa, as we speak now, National Assembly is a department of the villa

“It is evident in the National Assembly’s decision not to impeach Buhari despite the array of insecurity and gross display of incompetence by this government