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| Sen Ike Ekweremadu |
The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has been called upon not to play partisan politics with the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria.
Senator Solomon Adeola made the call following Ekweremadu’s statement that insurgency has worsened under President Muhammadu Buhari’s six week old government.
Adeola (APC, Lagos West) said Ekweremadu’s comparative narrative about Boko Haram strikes during former president Goodluck Jonathan’s era and Buhari’s tenure came from a partisan mindset.
“ 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 PDP administration is informed by partisan considerations of exonerating the PDP from the mess left behind by 16 years of PDP rule” Senator Adeola said.
The senator representing the largest senatorial district in Nigeria said it was regrettable that Senator Ekweremadu could come to the conclusion that Boko Haram insurgency has worsened 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 said what should be paramount in the minds of all Nigerians now is how to end the insurgency permanently which is not going to be an overnight assignment.
Senator Adeola said he is sure that President Buhari and the security agencies are working out strategies to curtail the focus of Boko Haram attacks on “soft targets” in recent times adding that such attacks indicate Boko Haram weakening in the battle field where they hitherto held territorial control.
