PDP & Entire Nation Unsettled As Service Chiefs Pledge Undivided Loyalty To Buhari(PHOTOS)
Pictures of service chiefs at President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally tagged ‘Next Level’ have become a source of worry for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, a spokesman for the organisation has said.
Photos of some service chiefs, including the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique; and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas at the event, were obtained by newsmen on Monday.
However, it could not be immediately ascertained if the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, also attended the event which took place in Abuja on Sunday.
In one of the photos, the Chief of Naval Staff is seen shaking hands with an All Progressives Congress chieftain and a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio.
Speaking with newsmen on Monday, the spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Mr Segun Sowunmi, said the presence of the service chiefs at such a political gathering showed that Buhari as the commander-in-chief had compromised the heads of military agencies.
Sowunmi called on the international community to take note of the development as it could imply that the military had already started working for Buhari’s re-election.
He said, “The problem with the security agencies is that they have not fully defined who they should be loyal to. The concern is that the commander-in-chief has some sort of relationship with them but when they elevate that relationship to a point where they begin to attend political events at the launch of the campaign of a political party, everybody must be scared.
“This is because it portends a very dangerous development which is that they have now got themselves involved in politics to the point that they are now the cheerleaders of another political party. I hope when we want to unveil our own political document at a public forum and if we invite them, they would be reasonable enough to attend since they now attend political events.”
But the spokesman for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), said the event was not a political one but an event to showcase the achievements of the Buhari administration.
Keyamo said during election time there would be a thin line between politics and government, adding that there was no cause for alarm.
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