As a result of insecurity/ethnic massacre in the country, many prominent Nigerians have argued that the people should carry arms to defend themselves. What’s your view on this?
I run on the platform of ‘Farewell to Poverty and Insecurity’, so we’ve always known that poverty and insecurity go together. Insecurity has taken a negative dimension, and now we are producing children graduating from university who grew up in an environment with no safety. We started with the problems of Chibok girls. If any of those girls was 10 years old then, how old would they be now? So, insecurity is not new. Nobody can say, ‘Oh, when I was running for election in 2023, I didn’t know there was insecurity.’ Any insecurity we have now is a sign of poor governance.
Are you saying the government is to blame for this continued insecurity?