A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has said that the era of the late military head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, was better than the insecurity confronting Nigerians in the present administration.
According to him, Nigeria under the current leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is more insecure than it was when General Sani Abacha was in power.
Making the assertion as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, on Wednesday, he said “This is totally unprecedented. This is the worst time ever in the history of Nigeria. You can’t even compare with Abacha’s time; Abacha’s time was a golden era compare with what is happening.”
However, while reacting to the recent assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, he expressed grief over the fact that certain forces empower some people from a part of the country with weapons to terrorize citizens.
According to him, the circumstances in Borno are very different. Borno is a war zone, we’ve been living with these evil people for a while but what happened in Benue is totally different and diabolical. We don’t know what they are trying to do but this could affect the whole country.
In his words “Do you think Abacha would have tolerated all these? You can’t travel on these roads, killings everywhere, destructions everywhere.”
Speaking further, he stated “This attempt on the life of an executive and incumbent governor of a state is an attempted attack on the entire people of the state. Those who are trying to do this wicked thing need to understand the implication of what they are trying to do.
Mailafia noted that the people of the Middle Belt are not afraid of those who carried out the assault on their governor.
“If the governor of a state cannot feel safe to go to his farm, how will the ordinary Benue people feel going to their farms? This is a very bad precedence.
The former Deputy Governor of the CBN, however, added that nobody is afraid of these people but it is just that these people are given arms and allowed to move freely while ordinary machetes are being dispossessed from people, they are not even allowed to defend their homes and their families but we are glad that God saved the life of his Excellency Governor Ortom.
Benue people and the people of the Middle Belt will never ever accept this attempt on one of their sons.
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