In the wake of the 2014 insecurity, President Bola Tinubu called for the resignation of former President Goodluck Jonathan, and the Presidency has maintained that this call was valid.
In an interview on Channels Television’s “The Morning Brief,” Daniel Bwala, President Tinubu’s Special Advisor on Policy Communication, reportedly revealed this in response to an earlier statement from Tinubu asking Jonathan to step down because of insecurity and the terrorists’ kidnapping of the Chibok girls.
“Why should any part of this country be under occupation?” Tinubu had stated in an earlier post. In any civilized country, Jonathan should resign.”
Speaking about the matter, Bwala stated that it was acceptable to call Jonathan to resign but not Tinubu.
He claims that unlike Jonathan’s administration, which denied the kidnapping of the Chibok girls, Tinubu has an answer to the present insecurity.
He stated, “When Asiwaju called for then-President Jonathan to resign, it was a legitimate call. Now, it’s not legitimate to ask for President Tinubu’s resignation.
“Being confronted with a problem is not a problem, but when you lack a solution to solving a problem, then you have a problem. Because in life, there is no place of this globe where there are no security situations.
“I was telling my guys at the BBC that the crime rate in the United States is higher than the crime rate in Nigeria. People in a democratic context have the right to speak what they want, but the next thing is you back up what you said.
“Start the procedure if you think that calling for the president to step down is a valid request; otherwise, the government’s worry over people exercising their right to free speech will be a display of indolence.
“In the days of former President Goodluck Jonathan, they didn’t have any idea of a solution because they were in denial about the Chibok girls’ abduction.”
