Bukola Saraki, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, has condemned the Federal Government’s handling of the country’s security challenges.
He believes that the country’s ongoing security challenges are a result of the inability to hold anyone accountable.
The former Senate President made the remarks Tuesday at the PDP Secretariat in Jos, Plateau State, while addressing the party’s delegates ahead of the upcoming presidential congress, which he is seeking delegates’ support for.
Senator Saraki reminded the delegates of the middle-importance belt’s to the country’s stability, particularly in the emergence of presidential candidates, and argued that the north-central region should produce the next democratically elected president.
“Nigeria today, we do not have the luxury of sending anybody to the Villa. Unfortunately, the people of Plateau are bearing the brunt of it. They’ve lost close relatives, close friends, properties, and that cannot continue,” he said.
“Who is going to help us solve that problem, who better than one of us,” he asked, adding: “the problem of insecurity in Nigeria is because there has been no accountability.
“People have done this, and nobody is held accountable.”
This comes days after the Northern Elders Forum picked him and the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed as consensus candidates for the region.