By Aideloje Ojo
Minna
Chairman of Northern State Governors Forum, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has described the statement credited to the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, that the governors of the region were not doing enough in the fight against insurgents as “unfortunate, uncharitable and part of hypocrisy on the part of the minister.”
Aliyu stated this yesterday in response to the accusation made by the minister while declaring open a security seminar in Minna.
He said: “It is more than unfortunate and I think it’s part of the hypocrisy because no governor so far as I know can be accused of not doing enough. As chairman of Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF), I can say that no governor can be accused of not doing enough particularly with the circumstances that we find ourselves.
“How can we do enough when we are aware that people like Labaran Maku would play politics with this statement? I think that the statement came out because of what is happening in Nasarawa state which he now generalise to the whole region.”
He added: “I am not aware of any governor invited by the NSA and told of what to do and he did not do it. I am not aware of that. We as Northern governors set up a committee that went round all the states; we sent our recommendations to the federal government and what did they do? They set up another committee, it went round and plagiarised the report of the Northern governors.”
He reiterated that the agreement with international communities should not be more than three months, adding that “if we are sincere with ourselves, we will be through all these in three months.”
