Anambra State Government has urged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, to desist from playing politics with the current state of security in the state.
Uba had less than 24 hours to the planned flag-off of his campaign in Onitsha called it off, attributing it to the current state of security, insisting that it was in honour of Dr Chike Akunyili, who was recently killed by unknown gunmen.
But the Anambra State Government in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba has stated that Uba rather suspended his campaign flag-off, billed to hold last Saturday, because he received signal that President Buhari was unwilling to attend.
Adinuba also faulted the press release by the APC that the campaign was suspended in honour of Dr Chike Akunyili, saying the suspension by Uba would be the third time, since President Muhammadu Buhari or vice president Yemi Osinbajo allegedly, refused to attend.
Adinuba noted that pointing fingers at the Anambra State government amounts to indicting President Muhammadu Buhari, as he controls the security agencies in the country.
According to him, President Buhari, not Governor Willie Obiano, is the Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces and head of all security agencies in the country. Security is on the exclusive list of the 1999 Constitution, as amended and Each of the 36 state governors in the federation is merely the titular chief security officer of his state. he added that No governor has control over the police force or the Department of State Security or the Nigeria Security & Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) in his state, let alone any of the armed forces. Even the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) is supervised by the state police command, like any other state vigilante service.
Adinuba further noted that politicizing an already tensed situation by the APC in the state is unnecessary as the state is not only dealing with Insecurity but also, politically guided assassinations.
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