KANO: You’re confusing the bandits, Yakasai tells Buhari

FORMER Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has taken a swipe at the Buhari administration again.  

Yakasai was sacked last month for criticising the Buhari administration and the ruling All Progressives Congress for failing to secure the country.

He said the APC had failed at all levels and called for Buhari’s resignation.

Yakasai made the statement following the arrest of hundreds of Jangebe schoolgirls in Zamfara State.

His utterances cost him his job and he was arrested by the operatives of the Department of Security Services; he was released two days later following public outrage over his arrest.

Yakasai, however, in a recent comment said President Buhari is confusing bandits and terrorists in the country with conflicting ultimatums and “stern warnings”.

He said this following the Buhari’s reaction to the abduction of students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Kaduna State last Friday. 

Security forces were said to have rescued 180 of the abductees but 39 students are still in the den of the kidnappers.

Yesterday, Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said Buhari “issued a stern warning to would-be terrorists and bandits targeting schools, saying the country will not allow the destruction of the school system”.

But reacting to the tweet by the Presidential spokesman, Yakasai wrote, “To be honest, you’re confusing these bandits/terrorists.

“Last week in Zamfara, you gave them two months notice, today na stern warning, which one should they take seriously Mallam Garba? If I’m a father with a kid in boarding school in the affected states, I’ll withdraw them kawai.”