Atiku Cries Out As Service Chiefs Attends Buhari’s Campaign Launch

The president also launched his campaign to get re-elected at the event tagged ‘Next Level’. It was attended by chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Services chiefs present at the event were Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of defence staff, Abubakar Sadiq, chief of air staff, and Ibok-Ete Ibas, chief of naval staff.

Speaking with PUNCH on Monday, Sowunmi said the presence of the service chiefs showed that Buhari, as the commander-in-chief, had compromised the heads of the military agencies.

He said: “The problem with the security agencies is that they have not fully defined who they should be loyal to. The concern is that the commander-in-chief has some sort of relationship with them but when they elevate that relationship to a point where they begin to attend political events at the launch of the campaign of a political party, everybody must be scared.

“This is because it portends a very dangerous development which is that they have now got themselves involved in politics to the point that they are now the cheerleaders of another political party.

“I hope when we want to unveil our own political document in a public forum and if we invite them, they would be reasonable enough to attend since they now attend political events.