Jega: Bad governance worsening Nigeria’s insecurity
The former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on Thursday, stated that bad governance is the cause of the worsening security challenges facing Nigeria.
According to him, “Bad governance is responsible for the worsening security challenges facing Nigeria.”
Jega, who serve as speaker at the Pre-Inaugural Lecture organised in honour of Umaru Bago Mohammed, the Governor-elect of Niger State, opined that the prevailing national security challenges in Nigeria were caused by poor management of complex diversity and poor governance complicated by heightened mobilisation of ethno-religious identities during political and electoral contests.
He, however, charged governments at all levels to effectively collaborate in taming the number of deaths and abductions subjected to worsening security challenges, saying that it had risen significantly in recent times.
In his remarks, Rabiu Musa Kwanwaso, the former Governor of Kano State and the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), in the February 25 presidential election, warned the governor-elect to be wary of bad eggs around him but to ensure justice in all his dealings.
Kwankwaso, who was the chairman of the occasion, believed that incompetence and lack of knowledge of governance were responsible for the failure of some elected governors.
