Elder statesman and chieftain of the PDP Alhaji Tanko Yakasai over the
weekend explained why he thinks President Jonathan didn't visit Chibok.
He said:
“Why I think the president’s decision not to visit the area is not bad
is because we were all aware of the deteriorating level of insecurity in
that part of the country. We all know it was too risky for the
president to visit Chibok at that time. The president is not a soldier,
soldiers are the people that should be sent there. If I was the
president and such an incident occurred, the right thing for me to do
was to send soldiers and to be frank, our soldiers are doing their best.
We are hearing on radio and reading on newspapers how soldiers are
being killed but yet they are doing their best.
I don’t know what is happening, the Minister of Defence, Ali Gussy, is a
northerner, the National Security Adviser is a northerner, the
Inspector General of Police is northerner, the Chief of Defence Staff is
also a northerner.
“All Nigerian soldiers are under his order, if all these people cannot
address the problem how would it be easy for the president to do it?
Don’t forget that suicide bombers are now experts, so what will happen
if they ambushed the president and something bad happened to him? Do you
think his people will accept that? Except if people want the country to
return to the Niger Delta militants era.”