The 2023 presidential candidate for the Labour Occasion, Peter Obi has reacted to the latest debacle between Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a Navy Lieutenant, AM Yerima over a bit of land within the Gaduwa space of Abuja.
In a submit made on X on Wednesday and titled, “Wike versus Naval Officer: A Lesson for Nationwide Reflection”, Obi described the verbal altercation between Wike and Yerima as unnecessary.
He additionally stated that such motion is an unlucky reflection of the rising institutional dysfunction in Nigeria the place one thing which ought to ordinarily be a routine civic encounter has, as soon as once more, turn out to be a nationwide embarrassment – a typical instance popping out of a ‘disgraced nation’
In accordance with Obi, past the personalities concerned – Wike, a minister and Yerima, a Navy officer who was on the incident representing his boss, a former Chief of Navy Workers, Vice Admiral Gambo – the incident raises elementary questions that demand sincere nationwide reflection:
He additionally queried why the army ought to use its personnel for civil operations and if the best protocols had been in place, ought to a Minister’s intervention in such a matter be in such an indecorous method?
The previous governor additional said that there needs to be clear boundaries between administrative authority and the duties of safety businesses.
“What does this say about our respect for establishments and the separation of powers? Why are our women and men in uniform so usually drawn into civilian disputes? Why has the tradition of due course of and civility given option to public spectacle and confrontation? If our establishments labored as they need to, would tempers flare in conditions that needs to be dealt with by clear process and hierarchy? Above all, what instance do incidents like this set for our youthful era about management, self-discipline, and the rule of legislation?
“These will not be simply questions on one incident – they go to the very coronary heart of how our nation is ruled. When public officers act past institutional norms, and when safety businesses are utilized in ways in which blur their skilled boundaries, we weaken each governance and public belief.
“We should be taught from this episode. It’s time to rebuild a nation the place establishments are stronger than people; the place public workplace is exercised with humility and restraint; the place the dignity of our uniformed officers and the rights of each citizen are upheld,” Obi wrote on X.
He additionally famous that any nation that aspires to greatness and feels insulted when known as a disgraced nation should guarantee it makes efforts to switch the tradition of impunity with the self-discipline of legislation, order, and respect for due course of.
He stated, “Repeatedly, I’ve maintained that to occupy an workplace and be known as His Excellency, Distinguished or Honourable, how we get to such an workplace and our character and behavior whereas holding it or out of it ought to replicate such exemplary titles in all ramifications,” Obi stated.