An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Farouk Aliyu, has advised the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, not to join issues with former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai and Labour Party’s 2023 vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, over the nation’s insecurity.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today show on Tuesday, he asserted that the NSA is beyond the argument.
The former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives acknowledged that insecurity remains a national challenge but cautioned against politicising the matter.
He said, “Let me use this opportunity to beg my brother, Nuhu Ribadu, he should not join issues with Nasiru El-Rufai or Datti Baba-Ahmed. No.
“He is beyond that; he shouldn’t talk. Let him allow other people to take it up, because they are talking politics.
“The same El-Rufai came to talk politics, talking about insecurity. It’s true there are insecurity challenges in this country, and this government is doing something, yes. How can you be in government and allow your government to be destabilised?”
Aliyu criticised El-Rufai’s past rhetoric of “killing them all,” insisting such statements were neither practical nor effective.
He said: “He was governor for eight years. Tell me, between when El-Rufai was governor of Kaduna and now, these two years, what is better in terms of insecurity? The way he wanted everyone to be killed didn’t work. Sadly, the government of the day does not negotiate with terrorists.”