- Yakubu Dogara has called on northeast people to vote for Atiku Abubakar in 2019
- The speaker of the House of Representatives claimed the Buhari administration brought insecurity
- Dogara said the people must decide if they still want to continue with their current lifestyle
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has claimed that the issue of insecurity has increased during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and called on the northeast people to vote Atiku Abubakar in 2019.
Vanguard reports that Dogara said this in Gombe during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zonal rally. He insisted that the 2019 election is about insecurity claiming things have gotten worse.
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He said: “So 2019 elections is about insecurity, whether we can be secured. Then look at your own lives, even if nobody loves or likes you, advise yourself, hold a consultation with yourself, sit down and argue with yourself, ask yourself what progress you’ve made in the last three and half years? Don’t even ask any other person, in case that person may give you a biased opinion about yourself, but you know yourself very well, just sit down and if you want assistance, sit down close to a mirror so that you can see yourself.
"Compare yourself the way you look now and the way you looked some three years ago and then you’ll know, and then decide for yourself whether you want to continue looking like this, that is if it doesn’t get worse in the next four more years. By the time you’ve finished having that conversation with yourself, make a decision.
“If this is the kind of life that you want us to live, if this is the kind of insecurity you want us to perpetrate for Nigeria. Today in Nigeria thirteen (13) million of our children are out of school, one million, three hundred thousand (1.3m) of those children are from my home state of Bauchi. If we continue like this, the numbers are bound to increase, and the crisis we will face in the future will be more than this Boko Haram crisis that we are witnessing. This is because by refusing to give free and compulsory education to our children, we are raising an army for insurgents that will come and consume us as a people."
According to him, the 2019 vote is not about anything, but about the people and the progress they want. He added that he trusts Nigerians to make the right in the 2019 elections.
Dogara insisted that the country has witnessed more carnage since Buhari came into government. He said things were better during PDP’s administration, accusing the All Progressives Congress of failing to secure the lives of the people.
He said: “Boko Haram insurgency is still fresh, in fact in PDP there was never a time when in one day more than one hundred soldiers were killed. In any other country, that would have made their security forces to declare a national emergency, but here it didn’t happen. God forbid, is that the Nigeria that we want going forward?"
The speaker said today, it is difficult to travel by road between Kaduna and Abuja because there is a 70% chance that you’ll be kidnapped.
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He urged the people of the northeast to vote massively for the PDP for the development of the region saying: “We people in the northeast have so much in this election. This election is not about PDP and APC, it is not about Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and President Muhammadu Buhari, it is between you and as an individual Nigerian and a government that has not fulfilled the expectations of Nigerian people, expectations of the people of the northeast."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that there was tension on Monday, December 17, in Abuja between representatives of herders' and farmers’ groups as Amnesty International (AI) presented a report on the conflict between the groups in Nigeria.
The report tagged Harvest of Death: Three Years of Bloody Clashes Between Farmers and Herders, was presented at Reiz Continental Hotel in Abuja.
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