… it`s desperation to conceal incapacity
A group, the Coalition of Northern Groups, has disputed the claim by the Federal government that some groups and individuals were planning to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari.
The group described the claim as unhelpful and doubtful fabrication and further labeled it as the height of ineptitude for an administration that has clearly failed in the manner it approaches sensitive matters such as security of citizens and glaring excesses of the administration’s officials to make such allegations.
“This confirms the extent of its incompetence and lack of political will,” the group said in a statement signed by its spokesman, Abdul-AzeezSuleiman.The Presidency earlier this week alleged that a group of Nigerians- individuals and groups- had perfected plans to violently overthrow the government.
The government alleged that the groups, working in cohort with foreign partners had planned a conference at which a vote of no confidence would be passed on President Buhari. But the group dismissed the claim, saying it was a smokescreen intended to divert attention from the failure to acknowledge the huge demands being made for the President to address serious shortfalls in the nation’s policing and security institutions.
“It is a sad commentary that government should choose a time when the verdict from every section of the country is that many things are seriously wrong with our economy, national unity, and security to come up with such allegations of a planned military takeover. “It is ridiculous that this is coming at a time when there are many abuses that ought to have been checked by this administration, but were ignored or treated with levity owing to very low levels of respect for accountability, the statement is a signal that those charged with the responsibility of governance are only concerned with the perpetuation of power.
“Rather than cooking up such pedestrian coup plot the story, President Buhari ought to have reminded himself that hundreds of thousands of people in northern communities have been at the mercy of bandits, kidnappers, and rustlers without any form of police protection. “ “That government should stoop as low as to contrive a coup story to cover its failure in relieving the widespread hardships and stresses faced by the nation, amounts to an admission of loss of capacity and political will to tackle the current challenges around the economy, insecurity, and national unity,” the group noted.
