CPC Lambast Presidency Over Statement On Buhari

Our attention in the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has been drawn to the 

utterly reckless and vitriolic response from the nation's Presidency to General 
Muhammadu Buhari's (GMB) statesman-like communication on the unfortunate armed 
attack on the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ado Bayero. In the said 
response, Dr Doyin Okupe, the Presidential aide on Public affairs, was reported 
to have described GMB's statement, which aptly mentioned the constitutional 
provision that the 'purpose of government is the welfare and security of the 
people', as irresponsible. 
It is never surprising that Dr Okupe's communication is often laden on asininity 
and acerbic profanity, what is befuddling is the quality of leadership of the 
Nation's Presidency that tolerates such immeasurable indecency!
As a respected Nigerian said, "the greatest threat to Liberty is the absence of 
criticism"; we believe that the bullish tactics of Dr Okupe in excoriating every 
critic of this PDP-led regime is not only deleterious to a harmonious polity but 
also an affront on personal liberty. 
The pertinent questions are:
1, Does it not speak eloquently on the mind set of the President that he 
encourages his aides to lambast a former Nigerian leader and respected Statesman 
for volunteering his concern on the general insecurity in the Nation state?
2, Is it not a matter of grave concern that a respected monarch, with all the 
retinue of security staff, being so gruesomely attacked on the street, there is 
dimming hope for the ordinary Nigerian?
3, Does this latest Attack not confirm our well-reasoned belief that the 
insecurity besetting the nation goes beyond religion and ethnicity?
4, Is it not ludicrous that, for more than one year since this President 
declared infiltration of his government by Boko Haram, nobody (within his 
government) has been handed over for prosecution?
5, Should this President not be accused of unduly overheating the polity by his 
penchant for abdicating responsibility for the foreboding evil of insecurity in 
the Land? 
6, Is it not true that, rather than making the polity safe for the Citizens 
(based on the oath of allegiance sworn to on 29th May, 2011), this President has 
lately renewed his assault on our collective psyche with all the shenanigans of 
devious politickying, ahead of 2015 elections?
7, Is it not time we asked the relevant question, with the yearly increase of 
fatalities from the insecure Nigerian environment, when shall this president 
transform from the rhetoric of vacuous promises to making the Nigerian polity 
safe for lives and property?
As a responsible Political Party, we cannot be cowed by the indignity of a 
loquacious Presidential Aide in failing to discharge our responsibility of 
nudging those that bear Executive responsibility of the gaping need for security 
(as enshrined in the Nation's statue). This, we believe, is the irreducible 
minimum in our article of faith with the Nigerian people. 
God Bless Nigeria. 

Rotimi Fashakin (Engr)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC. 
(Wednesday, 23rd January, 2013