Joyce Okpala BLOG: Only Buhari Has Capacity To Defeat Boko Haram And Restore Military’s Battered Pride – APC

The National Vice Chairman (North
East) of the All Progressives
Congress, Engr. Babachir David
Lawal, said Wednesday in Abuja

that the party’s presidential
candidate, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.) remains the only
candidate in the March 28
presidential elections that has the
capacity to defeat Boko Haram and
restore the battered image of the
Nigerian military.
Addressing a press conference in
his office in Abuja, Lawal said the
military high command should have
known that Buhari was the only
one with the capacity and
inclination to restore the dismally
low morale and self-esteem of the
present day armed forces.
The APC chieftain also dismissed
claims that the Independent
National Electoral Commission was
bias in the distribution of
Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), with
troubled states in the northeast
having collected more PVCs than
others.
Lawal stressed that people in the
northeast region have every reason
to vote out the current
administration, which he noted has
failed to protect them in the last six
years.
He said: “If the military high
command comprised of patriots
and/or men of honor of if they are
men that have pride in their
profession, they would have
realized that the only one of the
presidential candidates that has the
capacity and inclination to restore
the battered pride, and dismally
low morale and self-esteem of the
present day Nigerian military is
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
“The only one that has the capacity
and inclination to defeat Boko
Haram in the shortest possible time
is GMB. But no, they are none of
these. They are more comfortable
hiring out their men to work under
corrupt civilians, taking orders
from them to rig elections.
“They find it easier to deploy
armored personnel carriers and
battalions of troops to Imo State
Government House and the
residence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
to harass and intimidate them,
their wives and children for
standing up for democracy.
This is their comfort zone, not on
the battle field tackling insurgents.
To them, it is easier to intimidate
Prof. Attahiru Jega of INEC than
Ibrahim Shekau of Boko Haram.
“But all these are futile efforts to
delay the doomsday for the corrupt,
the clueless, and the religious bigots
in this government and their sit-
don-look presidential candidate
who gets stoned by his own party
men at several campaign rallies.
Nigerians are wiser now”.