” We must not use this incident to divide ourselves but we must use it as a cure to the security problem. “I am extremely concerned about security, i don’t want a stigma, i can go through history of kidnapping in Nigeria and we know how and where it all started, there are a lot of copycats. “How many years ago have we face the insecurity in the country? There are cases of kidnapping, is Evans too who was arrested and made disclosures was also a herdsman?.
“I am a nationalist and the security concern and challenge right now must be face squarely throughout Nigeria.
“The incident that affected one member of our family Mrs Olakunrin is seriously sad and unacceptable but nobody can return her alive, she has answered the call of her creator.
“We must not use this incident to divide ourselves but we must use it as a cure to the security problem
“Additional police, additional patrol, and additional security reinforcement along Ore road and various flash points across the country are necessary and i have discussed this among the various authorities. The Ondo state governor is eminently aware and being proactive about this.
“The security challenges are numerous across this country and to fight it we are going through that, more police are being recruited and it takes time to train and deploy them to various areas, nobody prepares more than necessary for this.
“But if you look at Zamfara, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and all areas, then we need to fight poverty, unemployment and the causes that might lead people to crying.
“Equally we must create opportunity to convert this tragedy to prosperity. Funke is very close to me and she died a premature death. Only four or five days ago, we chatted and i know what she discussed with me and about Baba’s health conditions.
“We just pray that this will not happen again’, he said. He advised that “the tragedy should be converted to posperity”,
But reactions that trail the position of Tinubu sees him as being too blinded by his presidential ambition to fight the Yoruba cause. “Does he think the Fulanis will hand him the presidency just like that because he is selling his people? He should ask the Afonja. History is about to repeat itself”, says a journalist from the South west who craved anonymity.
Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode teitted in the same vein. “He has become a slave to his ambition and a plague to his people “, he twitted. “He is…ready to sacrifice anyone and anything to become president.”
Many talked to by this magazine spoke in the same vein.
Meanwhile, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Ganiyu Adams, cut short his visit to Mali to rush back to Nigeria when he heard the news. “No one should blame us when we react”, he said.
