Ladoja attributes Nigeria’s security challenges to lapses of previous administration

The former Governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland High Chief Rasidi Ladoja have attributed the security challenge that is taking its toll on virtually all the sectors of the economies to the accumulated lapses of the previous administrations.

Ladoja made this known in an interactive session with the newsmen in Ibadan.

He noted that the security challenge with a high rate of occurrence in the northern part of the country is a confirmation of the lapses of the previous administration.

The former governor said, “There is no leader who doesn’t want good things for himself. We are all aware that there are security challenges, and from what they have been saying, even in the last three weeks, things are improving.

“We will continue to pray for the political leadership as well as the security leadership so that they will be able to surmount the challenges that are facing them.

“If you want to look at it, the past three months were not good security-wise, but things have improved in the past three weeks. I have not read about fresh cases of kidnapping.

“It will be noted that most reported cases of kidnapping happened in the northern part of Nigeria, which is a confirmation that what we are facing now is an accumulation of problems.

“Accumulated in the sense that if one section is working and another section is not working, then you will have problems because it is still one country.

“What we are facing now is the lapses of the leaders of that time. As earlier said, the security situation in the past three months has been worrisome, but there has been significant improvement in the past three weeks. This is to tell us that the system is working.

On restructuring being agitated for by certain sections of the country, the Otun Olubadan said, We always like to run without patience. It is human; how can you ask a hungry man not to cry?

“There have been various suggestions about restructuring, particularly a colloquium in Lagos where it was advocated that the present administration revisit the 2014 Conference.

“That is one of the solutions on the ground. There is a provision there for the state police. The report is all-embracing. It is not take one or leave one.

“It is not in the best interest of the country to have spent so much on the 2014 National Conference and dropped the report inside the cooler. I want it to be revisited.

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