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President Muhammadu Buhari says those criticising his government over “isolated cases of insecurity” are not patriotic.

The president said this 24 hours after ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote him a letter over the widespread insecurity in the country.

In an open letter on Monday, Obasanjo criticised  Buhari’s government, saying killings could not be swept under the carpet.

Obasanjo said the rate at which things were going, Nigeria could experience a situation similar to Rwanda where there was genocide in 1994.

“To be explicit and without equivocation, Mr. President and General, I am deeply worried about four avoidable calamities,” he wrote.

“Violent uprising  beginning  from one section  of the country  and spreading  quickly  to other areas  and leading to dismemberment  of the  country.”

But speaking with national executives of the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) at Aso Rock, the president, who did not specifically mention Obasanjo’s name, said those criticising the “isolated cases” of insecurity in the country are not patriotic.

Buhari said every country in the world is facing one security challenge or the other, adding that banditry and kidnapping happen across the world.