The
Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola,
said on Friday that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was
wrong in his comparison of the activities of Boko Haram insurgency
during the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and the
bomb blasts recorded in some parts of the country recently.
Adeola, in
a statement by his Media Adviser, Chief Kayode Odunaro, in Abuja, also
said Ekweremadu should not play partisan politics with the resurgence of
Boko Haram attacks in recent times.
The deputy president of the Senate, had, on Thursday, expressed concern over the current spate of Boko Haram attacks
in the country at a “time that government should be talking of a
redevelopment plan to rebuild the North-East since the last
administration had almost rolled back the insurgency before handing over
on May 29.”
But Adeola
described Ekweremadu’s comparative narrative on the resurgence of Boko
Haram attacks as reported in some newspapers on Friday, as a partisan
mindset of one playing politics with insurgency.
He said,
“It is very worrisome that Senator Ekweremadu, who has been a presiding
officer of the Senate under the PDP administration since the inception
of Boko Haram about six years ago, will expect the insurgency that his
party and PDP administration could not resolve to be eradicated by
Buhari in six weeks.
“I
believe his comparison of recent attacks under Buhari with that of
outgone Peoples Democratic Party administration is informed by partisan
considerations of exonerating the PDP from the mess left behind by 16
years of PDP rule.
“It is
regrettable that Senator Ekweremadu could come to the conclusion that
Boko Haram insurgency has worsen in the last few weeks in comparison to
thousands of civilians and military lives lost, destruction of
communities as well as the national agony and ordeal of the yet to be
resolved missing Chibok girls under the PDP administration.”
Adeola
noted that what should be paramount on the minds of all Nigerians now is
how to put an end to the insurgency permanently which, according to
him, was not going to be an overnight assignment.
He added
that Buhari and the security agencies were already working out
strategies to curtail the focus of Boko Haram attacks on “soft targets”
in recent times.
The
senator said the insurgents resorted into bombing when it was obvious
that the military had weakened them in the battle field where they
hitherto had territorial control.
(Punch)
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