The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, has said that the recent formation of the Amotekun security outfit
by the South-West governors has not put the foundation of the country at risk.
Rather, he said the South-West regional security outfit was
launched by the governors of the zone in a bit to confront the insecurity in
their states.
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“Those claiming that this limited, inoffensive addition to
security threatens the Republic have taken themselves upon a madcap excursion,”
Tinubu said.
Disclosing this in a statement on Wednesday, Tinubu,
however, called for private discussion between the governors of the South-West
and the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami, over
Amotekun, the security outfit of the South-West states.
The former Lagos governor also warned that, that fabric
could be torn by what he called the “dangerous rhetoric of those who should
know better.”
In his first intervention in the controversy surrounding
Amotekun, Asiwaju Tinubu said: “Those claiming that this limited, inoffensive
addition to security threatens the Republic have taken themselves upon a madcap
excursion.
“Those claiming that the Federal Government seeks to
terribly suppress the Southwest have also lost their compass. Those who occupy
these two extremes have sunken into the dark recesses of fear and political
paranoia that can undo a nation if such sentiments are allowed to gestate.”
The statement personally signed by him entitled “The Public
Discourse Over Amotekun,” and released on Wednesday.