Chibok: ‘it’s Very Easy To Criticize JonathanWithout All The Details’ – Fashola

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Chibok: ‘it’s Very Easy To Criticize JonathanWithout All The Details’ – Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN)
has said that the easiest thing to do was to
criticize the President on the Chibok Girls
abduction even without a presence of all the
facts.
Speaking to an audience which included Jigawa
Governor, Sule Lamido at the political debate
tagged: “Fixing Nigeria: The nuts and bolts”
packaged by the Kukah Centre, Fashola said, “As
far as sincerity about Chibok is concerned,
honestly, let me just say that the problem that
Chibok symbolises has assumed a dimension that
is ordinarily outside the authority and control of
government.”
He implied he was slow to criticize President
Jonathan on the Chibok Girls because he does not
know the facts that the President has.
“That is why I have always said that the easiest
thing to do is to criticise. Do you have the facts
that are at his disposal because it is only then that
we can have a very serious disagreement that on
this set of facts this should be my own choice.
“It is now a matter of insurgency and therefore
the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Armed Forces
have only one Commander-in-Chief and that is
Mr. President. The buck stops on his desk on this
matter and it cannot be an easy decision.
“The most I am willing to say, I can’t measure
sincerity. I know it is a tough call now. The Chibok
parents, who are grieving, want their children
back. There are many options on the table, but I
don’t also think they are expecting body bags of
their children.
“It is a difficult place to be. But of course I have
always said, issues of this nature may provoke a
debate about the methods, and by the clarity of
the choices that are being made, about the
judgment calls that are also being made.”