We need competent leaders ' Buhari

Former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has said only competent leaders are capable of putting the country on the right path.He said devoting almost the entire budget to security would not bring any result if there was no competence in leadership to know what to do at the right time.Buhari said the bombings that took place in four states in Nigeria on Christmas Day were condemnable.A statement by the spokesperson for Buhari, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the former head of state also commiserated with all those who lost their loved ones in these heinous acts of terror and prays that the Almighty would grant them the fortitude to bear their irreparable losses.He called on all people of goodwill to condemn these occurrences that had sent sorrows to many families in a festive season.Bombing other human beings to death at any time is callous. It becomes much more reprehensible on a Christmas day and all lovers of peace must condemn this gruesome acts and demand that the perpetrators be fished out and brought to book, he said.He expressed worry about the seeming indifference of the Nigerian authorities to these unfortunate incidents.He said, How on earth would the Vatican and the British authorities speak before the Nigerian government on attacks within Nigeria that have led to the deaths of our citizens'This is clearly a failure of leadership at a time the government needs to assure the people of the capacity to guarantee the safety of lives and property.He called on the Nigerian government to rise up to the challenge of security in the country and not to believe that its just about voting almost a quarter of the budget to security.You can devote the entire budget to security and there wont be any result if there is no competence in leadership to know what to do at the right time, Buhari said.Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the Christmas Day bombings across the country and appealed to Nigerians to eschew violence.A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prof. Rufai Alkali, said the party was pained by the bombings and the loss of lives.He said, We wish to once again condemn in totality this recourse to extremist ideologies in a multi-religious and multi-cultural society such as ours and urge our people to take the path of dialogue rather than violence.
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