Kano State Governor calls President incompetent, Presidency replies

The Governor of Kano State, Musa Kwankwaso has criticized President Goodluck Jonathan saying that he lacks the capacity to be Nigeria’s Commander in-Chief.

The governor stated:

“We need to have the right commander in-chief who has the capacity and the political will to stop the nonsense that is happening in this country. Today, we have a situation where we go to beg for help from countries that came to beg us to help protect their people in the past.”

“I always feel bad that we can no longer protect ourselves as a country. But this is a country where its military performed creditably by protecting people from other African countries and helping a country come out of a repressive apartheid regime.”

“As we are sitting here, thousands of Nigerians are refugees in Chad and Niger. We have over five million internally displaced persons in the North-east. This is a very sad development because many people do not think the North-east is still a part of this country,” he added.

Kwankwaso, who was previously a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also stated that “any government that fails in this sacred responsibility has no business being in power.”

The Presidency has responded to Kwankwaso’s comments by calling him a political gambler who is hallucinating about becoming Nigeria’s president.

Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati while speaking to Premium Times reportedly stated that the governor is an incompetent and clueless presidential aspirant.

“The point must be made very clearly that the kind of comment Governor Kwankwaso made at an occasion where he was doing a fund raiser for his gamble to become the presidential candidate of the APC shows that he is a very incompetent and a clueless presidential aspirant,” Abati said.

“One would have expected that at an occasion where he was raising funds to promote his gamble to become the presidential flag bearer of the APC, he would project himself as a man who has a vision and an agenda for moving Nigeria forward.”

“Instead, what he has done at every turn in this his new found gamble and hallucinatory ambition to become the president of Nigeria is to rundown President Jonathan at every opportunity,” Abati added.

“It is obvious that he is clueless and an incompetent presidential aspirant and is not in a position to talk about incompetence. He is even the one that is incompetent and that is masked gross paranoia. He is complaining that President Jonathan is not doing enough to check insurgency and we are inviting countries that we have helped before to come and help us.”

“Any intelligent aspirant will see very clearly that insurgency affects all of us and what is required is for all Nigerians to walk together. Governor Kwankwaso wants to be the president of Nigeria in his dreams,” the presidential aide said.

Kwankwaso will on Wednesday, December 10, battle other aspirants, including former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari and ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, for the presidential ticket of the APC.