Babangida Warns Jonathan Over Deployment Of Soldiers For Elections, As FG Disagrees, APC Backs Babangida–Reports New York[RR] Abuja–According to sources reaching Republic Reporters former Military dictator,General Ibrahim Babangida, IBB, has issued a warning on the back ground of troop deployment during upcoming elections in 2015. In an interview with reporters in his lavished Hill Top […]
Babangida Warns Jonathan Over Deployment Of Soldiers For Elections, As FG Disagrees, APC Backs Babangida–Reports
New York[RR] Abuja–According to sources reaching Republic Reporters former Military dictator,General Ibrahim Babangida, IBB, has issued a warning on the back ground of troop deployment during upcoming elections in 2015.
In an interview with reporters in his lavished Hill Top Mansion in Minna, Niger State, to mark his 73rd birthday, which kicks in tomorrow. Republic Reporters gathered that ‘President Goodluck Jonathan, as the Commander- in-Chief, has developed a template for providing security during elections using soldiers along with other security forces…”, sources say.
During Anambra State governorship elections, and those of Edo, Ekiti and and in Osun states respectively. Opposition party, All Progressive Congress, APC, has kicked against such deployment stating that it is antithetical to democratic practices.
IBB said deployment of Military will undermined the Nigerian Police Force, NPF.
Read full text of IBB interview beneath:
“I don’t believe the military should supervise elections. I don’t believe they should participate in them…I was already an officer in the Nigerian Army in the 60s and there was no military presence in the streets in those days but the police. I think it is high time we restored the glory of the force.
“I am not sure military guys should be involved in these civic duties. It cannot continue like this. I don’t believe the military guys should be seen on the streets,” Babangida warned.
Arguing that political leaders can handle the pressure and challenge of elections,regardless of its complications.
Credit: Tribune.
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