Falana chides Buhari over N27.5m loan to obtain APC presidential form

Falana chides Buhari over N27.5m loan to obtain APC presidential form

Legal luminary and human right activist, Mr Femi Falana, on Thursday, chided former military Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), over N27.5 million loan obtained from a bank to pick expression of intent form for his aspiration to contest in the 2015 presidential election.
Falana stated this while speaking as a guest lecturer at the 2014 Press Week organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Paramount FM chapel, Abeokuta,Ogun State.
He described the action of the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) as “indefensible.”
Falana noted Nigeria’s kind of politics as too expensive, urging Nigerians to kick against monetisation of politics as being practiced in the country today.
“It is indefensible for General Buhari to have obtained a loan facility of N27.5million just to obtain a form of intent to contest in the presidential election in 2015 under the All Progressives Congress,” he added.
He also asked whether the former head of state would seek another round of loan for campaign, if he eventually emerged the candidate of the party after the primaries.
Falana, who spoke on “Current Security Challenges: Implications for 2015 elections,” lamented that the security challenges facing the country currently, if not addressed might lead to another civil war.
He bemoaned what he described as insensitivity on the part of the Federal Government over its failure to adequately equip the military in fighting the sectarian crises in the Northern part of the country.
“Nigeria is wonderfully rich but, badly managed. ‘‘Nigeria will not break, but civil war is imminent next year. Kidnapping, armed robbery, terrorism, human trafficking were caused by poverty.
“Nigeria should be unanimous in fighting all forms of menace confronting the country like we confronted the Ebola.
“Government should wake up in the provision of security to the citizenry, that is government’s primary responsibility,” he added.