Former Military Administrator of Ogun State, Kayode Olofinmoyin, has criticised the composition of the National Security Council for being ethnically imbalanced.

Mr. Olofinmoyin alluded to heavily skewed top security appointments which favours the North as the major cause of the security challenges the nation faces..

The retired navy captain gave his scathing views at an event held on Thursday at ECOWAS auditorium, Asokoro, Abuja.

“So in your National Security Council of 11, you have nine northerners and two southerners. Look, I am telling you as a practitioner, a former governor of a state, a general, and I am 70 years old, when you go to such meetings, those two southerners are just there as onlookers. Who is going to believe in the outcome of such a security meeting and you say it is national,” Mr. Olofinmoyin said.

Mr. Olofinmoyin criticised the president for being a sectional leader, while he urged Nigerians to remind the president that he is an elected leader  

” Let the federal government correct the inequalities. The Attorney-General has just said the rule of law and equal rights defend the law. Look [if] everything takes its position, you will have peace, the economy will be developing, everybody will be generating its own employment, that is my advice. 

“Squarely, we must tell Mr. President he is an elected leader the buck stops at his table,” Mr. Olofinmoyin said.

Mr. Olofinmoyin further explains that the imbalance in military hierarchy was capable of demoralising the soldiers and thus impair their resolve to defeat the various aggressors in the frontlines

“The soldier must believe in the war [for it to succeed], … because the people downstairs are looking at the upstairs.”  

Curiously however, Mr. Olofinmoyin denied criticising the president when Peoples Gazette contacted him on Thursday for further clarification. 

Despite video evidence, the ex-military general said, ” I never condemned the President, you are wrong, it is not me.” The video of his remarks at the event has since gone viral.