Shekarau: FG’s performance has been below average

Ibrahim Shekarau, former governor of Kano, says the performance of the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government has been below average.

Shekarau, who is chairman of the League of Northern Democrats (LND), a group of northern leaders, said the government is not doing enough to tackle insurgency in the north.

The ex-education minister also criticised state governments for not collaborating to fight insecurity in their regions.

“Our problem is that we keep experiencing a situation where we always say the previous government was better. Nigerians complain today, but when a government leaves and another one comes, they would say that yesterday was better,” he said on Sunrise Daily, a ChannelsTV breakfast programme.

“Part of our problem is lack of political stability. In Nigeria, the states are independent of one another. There are no two states in Nigeria that I know are doing anything together and this is not helping us.

“If states would collaborate and work together, a lot of these things are likely to change for the better. We are not saying the government is not doing its own best but we believe it is still below average.

“We believe a lot more can be done.”

Shekarau harped on collaboration to curb the insurgency in the north.

“If you take the issue of insecurity in the north-west, if you look at Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi axis and maybe some parts of Katsina, each of the states is doing its own bit on its own,” he added.

“What stops all the three to four states that are in a zone coming together, working together?

“You would find out that there is no border stopping these people from one end to another.

“If you chase them (criminals) out of Sokoto, they will go to Zamfara, if you chase them from Zamfara, they will go to Kaduna.

“And I believe even if the states on their own fail to do it together, I think the federal government needs to sit up and address governors’ concerns within the area of insurgency.”