The Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has criticised the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, for faulting the military’s declaraton of IPOB as a terrorist group.
Mr. Saraki on Monday said the military has no constitutional power to declare any group a terrorist organisation. He also said the South-east governors who proscribed the pro-Biafran separatist group had no power to do so.
In his reaction, Mr. Doguwa, a member of Mr. Saraki’s All Progressives Congress, said the senate president’s stance was “a mere political statement.”
“For me, the recent comment made by the Senate President on this matter was a mere political statement that would only portray him as a controversial leader,” he said.
Mr. Doguwa said considering the attacks allegedly meted out on innocent Nigerians by the IPOB group in the South-east and the conduct of northern governors to stop possible reprisals in the North, the senate president’s statement was unnecessary.
“I am sure the senate president was only expressing his personal opinion, which I further believe was not a good one in the given circumstances.”
“The Nigerian Armed forces in my opinion are doing their best professionally and in the best interest of a united Nigeria.”
“Even the South-eastern state governors have declared the activities of Kanu’s IPOB as illegal and therefore proscribed. He (Senate President) can’t cry more than the bereaved,” Mr. Doguwa said.
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