The Muslim Rights Concern ( MURIC) has criticised former military head of state, General AbdulSalami Abubakar, for declaring that the economic hardship in Nigeria is getting out of control....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
Abubakar, in some reports, had said the situation was “getting out of control” while also saying people could demonstrate but not engage in violence.
MURIC, in a statement by its Founder/Executive Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, urged the former Head of State to guard his utterances.
Akintola said the tone of Abubakar’s statement is an extreme language.
He said: “Of course, we all know that things are hard but to describe them as getting out of control is to expect people to also go out of control. There is a milder way to put it and the retired general knows it, having been trained in the use of diplomatic language before, at least while in Aso Rock himself.
“Undiplomatic and unparliamentary languages are capable of inflaming the populace. The retired general could have done better. As a former head of state and an elder statesman, the retired general has a duty to act in loco parentis. He is still one of our fathers. He could have reminded his immediate audience (a delegation of the Campaign for Democracy) of the global nature of the economic hardship which Nigerians are facing.
