By our reporter| A former Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor on Monday warned that unless the worsening security situation in the country is addressed, there may not be election in 2023.
Ejiofor who gave the warning while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, asked the Federal Government to urgently tackle insecurity head-on.
He said, “If we don’t get these things right before 2023 elections, if we don’t get these things sorted out the various security challenges in the various geopolitical zones, I can assure you that there won’t be elections.”
“There will be a crisis in this country, there will be anarchy. We need to sort out this thing before 2023.
“Let us talk about this country before talking about elections. If we continue like this, there won’t be elections in 2023 because of series of agitations.”
The security official who faulted a situation whereby states would converge at Abuja on a monthly basis to collect allocation amid rising security challenges, backed the calls for restructuring, saying the move would help solve the various national issues.
On the controversy trailing the past extremist religious views of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, Ejiofor explained that the DSS must have passed the information on his utterances to government before his appointment as Minister in 2015.
“I am not the spokesperson of the SSS but I can tell you that it would be difficult for that information to have passed the State Security Service.
“They must have it on record of his sympathy for Al-Qaeda and some of these terrorist organisations. If the State Security Service submits a report on an individual to government and government fails to act on it, who is to blame?” he questioned.
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