Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Said "He had warned governors against giving youth guns"

Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Said "He had warned governors against giving youth guns"

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1. However, let me tell you when we created the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and started the campaign and those who wanted to contest all emerged, Rivers and Bayelsa State governors, at that time, released huge amounts of money and recruited youths and bought guns for them in order for the governors to win the election.
2. However, recently, it has all been merged under the central government, a junior officer from the north posted to south and those from south posted to the north, but some crises if you did not engage the locals it is going to be difficult to address.
3. A party where the governor does what he likes and anybody he wants is the one to win in an election, not who the people want then it is not a party any longer.
4. People believed that this government is PDP government and you are one of the party's leaders.
5. Some are of the opinion that this is a northern problem and you, the northern elders, are doing nothing to address the problem, instead you rely on government?
6. What I want you to understand is that the party has been crippled, meaning that those in power have no regard and respect for the party.
7. At the national level, there is also a problem when the party took her own side, governors took the other one, why?
8. How could you do that because even in your state now, where the party chairman also comes from, There are a lot of problems and you have failed to adress them?
9. I went and met them and told them that those boys you gathered, if you win the election and if you do not give them jobs they will start attacking people and they are the ones called Niger Delta militants now.
10. How come we, who created the party, are not being consulted on how to address the party's problems?
11. In that case why did not government punished anybody who bought weapons and gave it to some people?
12. I met with the governor and told him that those boys you gathered and you gave them weapons you called them "ecomog" they are going to become a disaster and it happened.
13. We are going to fix the party problems whether somebody likes it or not.
14. Some are of the opinion that those who remain at that time are the ones doing all these things?
15. ormer Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said he personally warned former Borno, Bayelsa and Rivers States governors against giving youth arms during elections.
16. Actually, there is time for the 2015 election, may be some are doing what they are doing now because of that may be not.
17. There are challenges in funding, training and equipment for security personnel; for them to effectively protect the people's lives and properties.
18. At that time things didn't get out of hand the way it is now, because they did not have those to attack people.
19. No, it could be combined in order to address the problem in a very short period of time.
20. What kind of advice didn't northern elders channel to the government?