By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
For daring to compare the level of insecurity in the country under the Muhammadu Buhari presidency to what obtained during the civil war, Remi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos Central, on Tuesday, labelled Smart Adeyemi, her All Progressives Congress (APC) colleague from Kogi West, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Adeyemi, who shed tears while contributing to a motion on the situation on the floor of the Senate, said the country was facing the worst instability since the civil war. “This is the worst instability we are facing. In fact this is worse than the civil war,” he said.
Not expecting that a chieftain of the ruling APC, who the party risked everything to railroad back to the Senate after he failed election in 2019, could be so forthright, a rattled Remi Tinubu, wife of the APC leader, Bola Tinubu, quipped, “Are you in PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)? Are you a wolf in sheep’s clothing?”
But ignoring Tinubu’s tantrums, Adeyemi continued: “We cannot pretend that we are capable of handling the situation in our hands. America, as powerful as they are, when the pandemic came, it came to a point China came to their rescue.
“We shouldn’t pretend that we need foreign support now. Billions of naira has been voted for security services and nothing is coming out of it.
“I’m a party man and I’m supporting APC but it has gotten to a point that as supporters we cannot keep quiet.”
Insecurity has spiraled out of control in recent weeks. Sani Bello, Niger governor, said on Monday that Boko Haram has hoisted its flag in Shiroro LGA of the state, warning that not even Abuja, the country’s seat of power, was safe.