Kano State Governor and All Progressives Congress Presidential Aspirant, Mr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has said that any government that cannot protect its people and their properties should not seek for re-election.
He made this statement during a campaign fundraising at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.
He said “The issue of security anywhere in the world is key. Any government at all levels that cannot protect its people and their properties, that government has no business even staying talk less of looking for re-election.
“In any country that has security issues especially coupled with corruption, nothing would work and that is why today, so many things have gone wrong in this country and as members of APC and even people outside our party, our prayer is that the right candidate should be elected on December 10 in Lagos.
“All of us here are very much aware of what is happening in this country. Today, as we are sitting, we have thousands of Nigerians in Chad Republic, in Cameroun and in Niger as refugees. We also have about 4 million people that are being internally displaced. These are to some extent, the lucky ones because so many innocent people are being killed in this country. And this is a very sad development for all of us.
“Most people normally forget that North-east is certainly part of us. Those people are our brothers and sisters. Of course not only in the North-east, the crisis is all over the North and even in some parts of the South especially the issue of kidnapping and armed robbery.”
He also decried the current state of the military, he said “I always feel terribly bad as a member of the extended family of the military in this country that today we cannot protect ourselves. I always remember those days when our military was in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Dafur and other parts of Africa. These were soldiers that did extremely well by any world standard. Those days, we were not even talking of protecting ourselves. We were protecting others on this continent.
“Many years before then, this country had the capacity to support other African countries to even remove them out of apartheid and other serious international issues but today we have seen a situation where countries that were coming to beg for one thing or the other, now we have to go and beg them to help us protect our lives and properties.
“I believe that this mess will certainly stop by the Grace of God in 2015 when we have the right leader.”
Kwankwaso will face former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, (rtd) and the Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah in the party primaries on Wednesday.