Ahead of next year’s general elections in Nigeria, the country’s National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) has sent a warning to state governors employing the use of thugs to prevent members opposition from mounting campaign materials in their domains that security agencies will soon catch up with them.
Anchoring the ministerial briefing at the state house on Thursday, he further warned that there will be no hiding place for the perpetrators, when the law enforcement agencies decide to take steps.
The NSA who was reacting to reports of state governors implementing policies that prevent the presence of opposition campaign materials in their states, blamed the action on what he described as inferiority complex.
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Again he warned the governors to restrain their thugs in what be describes as a ‘Cabo regime’, reminding that President Muhammadu Buhari had given clear directives that the 2023 election must be free, fair, and credible.
On the persistent attacks on INEC offices particularly after he had promised to deal decisively with the attackers, he reiterates the threat, with an assurance that ‘they will get there’.
In another report, the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) on Thursday threw its weight behind the Federal Government’s insistence that state governors were looting local government allocation.
President Muhammadu Buhari had yesterday asserted that the lack of development that was being experienced at the local government level in many States in Nigeria was caused by governors and local government officials who “pocket” public funds.
Buhari lambasted the governors over what he described as poor governance at the grassroots.
Buhari made this known on Thursday while speaking at a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course No. 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.