Bad leadership responsible for Nigeria’s insecurity — Baba-Ahmed

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Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has blamed successive Nigerian governments for the insecurity in the country, saying poor leadership over the last decade is largely responsible for the current state of insecurity.

Speaking on Arise TV on Friday, Baba-Ahmed said, “The situation is more dire, the challenges are more serious, the threats are more varied, the sources of these threats are more varied.”

He added, “The only thing that has been consistent all along is that we have had bad leaders going as far back as perhaps after President Yar’Adua. All the way, all through the last 10, the last 15 years, this country has been poorly led. Everything that happens to this country, you can visit it on the doorstep of our leadership. This is a great country, with great people, which has been poorly served by bad, indifferent leaders.”

Baba-Ahmed also assessed the performance of current and previous administrations on security, stating, “We are where we are today because our leaders have failed us. President Tinubu has failed us. The president before him for eight years had done virtually nothing about the increasing place of insecurity in our lives. The president before him hasn’t done much either. And here we are.” Punch