BUHARI CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: PRESENCE OF SERVICE CHIEFS; AN ABERRATION....... ONUESOKE

Sunny Onuesoke

Reactions have continued to trail the presence of Service Chiefs of the Nigerian military, at the campaign launch of Muhammadu Buhari, a leading contender for the 2019 Presidency.

Prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Environmental expert, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described the presence of Nigeria Service Chiefs at the launch of President Buhari Campaign Strategy as, an aberration.



Onuesoke who spoke to Naij News Alert at the Murital Mohammed International Airport in Abuja on Tuesday while on his way to attend an overseas environmental engagement seminar, pointed out that the presence of the Service Chiefs at the launch had shown where the election pendulum will be swinging to, in the forthcoming Presidential election.

According to him, “It is a total aberration and against the doctrine of neutrality. Where on earth would Service Chiefs  be attending a Presidential flag off? We have 76 Presidential candidates and the country's Service Chief decided to attend only one. That showed there is a foul play and they are also telling Nigerians and the world that they are on the side of Buhari and APC”.

Onuesoke, a former Delta State Governorship aspirant, argued that the Presidency's defense that the military chiefs were  mistaken in their assumption that the event  was a non-political, was an after thought.

He appealed to the international community to take note of the development as it could imply that the military had already started working for the return of APC in 2019.

He lamented that the problem with the security agencies is that they have not fully defined who they should be loyal to, adding however that, when they begin to attend political events or 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 gotten themselves involved in politics to the point that they are now the cheerleaders of another political party”, he stated.

He advised that the Service Chiefs and other functionaries of government agencies should abstain from politics for true democracy to prevail.