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2019: Security chiefs attending Buhari’s campaign launch ‘a bad signal’– Shehu Sani

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Norherners are tolerating Buhari's bad governance because he is from the region - Sani

Senator Shehu Sani has described security chiefs attending President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign launch as outright violation of their neutrality and a bad signal to free, fair and credible elections in 2019.

Some service chiefs, including the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadiq; and Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, were alleged to have attended Buhari 2019 campaign launch event on Monday.

But Senator Sani, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, took to his Twitter handle to condemn the development.

He wrote: “The neutrality and fairness of the defense & security organs of the state is absolutely necessary to the goal of free, fair & credible elections; Defense and security chiefs attending Campaign flag off of one candidate is an outright violation of this ideal principle and a bad signal.”

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is reported to have also condemned the development.

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A spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Mr. Segun Sowunmi, is reported to have said that the presence of the service chiefs at such a political gathering was a demonstration that Buhari as the commander-in-chief had compromised the heads of the military agencies.

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