“Shut up Nyako, you don’t represent us” – Buba Marwa disowns Genocide Memo

             

While we wonder what Governor Murtala Nyako thought would be the result of the #GenocideMemo he penned and forwarded to the 19 Northern Governors, his peers staying condemning its contents.
Former military administrator of Lagos, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has joined the condemnation of the inciting letter, asking Nyako to “shut up”, because “enough is enough. You are setting an unheard of precedent for the younger generations by those inflammatory statements.”
Marwa, speaking from his residence in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, said as a son of the soil and former governorship aspirant on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 elections, it was necessary to speak to the incoherence and disgraceful content in the letter.

He said, “I want to state very clearly that Nyako’s letter does not represent the opinion of the Adamawa State citizenry. Nyako’s statement, apart from its incoherence, was disgraceful, shameful, embarrassing to the military constituency and was a behaviour unbecoming of a retired admiral, former service chief and executive governor,” he said.

“We must come together and be united in confronting the challenges in front of us. Nyako should be quite clear that President Jonathan did not pronounce himself president.“Even our two scriptures of the Holy Bible and Quran said God made leaders and gives leadership to whom he chooses. Whether Nyako likes it or not he must recognise and respect him as the leader of Nigeria.

“It is therefore in bad faith and setting a bad example for the younger generation in the armed forces for Nyako to bad-mouth his president in the way and the manner he has been doing of recent. It is this reason that I have never uttered a word of disdain, insult or indecorous language against Nyako because he is my senior in the armed forces. In the same manner, he must respect the office of the president,” he observed.

Marwa said the governor was trying to blame security challenges in the area for his non-performance as governor, adding that neither Nyako nor his party (APC) would form the next government in 2015.
“We were the roots, trunks and branches of the APC and we have left the party, we are gone and Nyako is left with the shell,” he said.