Former Nigeria military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has said that Boko Haram insurgency has thrived and assumed intolerably dangerous dimension in the last four years because President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime has chosen to play devious politics with a national calamity.
He recalled that the same known founders of the dreaded insurgency group have become the confidantes of the President, saying that on September 9, 2014, in Djamena, Chad, Nigeria’s president, Chadian President and one of these elements were photographed in a meeting together.
In a statement by his media man, Engineer Rotimi Fashakin, reacting to what he called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) “diatribes,” General Buhari said that he was disheartened by the grotesque characterization of his personality by PDP.
Buhari recalled that at the time President Jonathan was winning and dinning with suspected sponsors of Boko Haram, the opposition All progressives congress (APC), through the spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said inter-alia:
“This action by President Jonathan confirms what the APC has always believed: That the President either knows more than he is willing to admit on the issue of those who are behind the Boko Haram insurgency or he is willing to sacrifice the battle against terrorism on the altar of political expediency.”
According to Buhari, whilst Nigerian villages, schools and markets were easily overrun with maniacal fury by the insurgent group because of inadequate security, this same individual enjoyed very large armada of security men provided by the government of Dr. Good luck Jonathan.
The General said that he was horrified by the bare-faced falsehood, insidious fallacy and scurrilous untruth contained in the press statement of the ruling party, just for the purpose of cheap political agenda “bearing similarities with the despicable Emperor Nero who was fiddling while Rome burned.”
The APC Presidential aspirant repeated that under his presidency, Insurgency shall not only be exterminated but Nigerians shall experience security in all ramifications as envisaged by the drafters of the Nation’s constitution in section “The reason is that the same patriotic zest and zero-tolerance for indiscipline and organized crime are still resident in the persona of the amiable elder-statesman.”
He said that besides showing undisguised patriotic love for Nigeria in his glorious career in the Nigerian military, I have always shown statesman-like interventions at critical times in the nation’s current democratic order.
On 14th January, 2010, whilst a tiny cabal tried to hold the entire Nation to ransom, thus preventing the VP Good-luck Jonathan from assuming the role of Acting President, I led a delegation of patriotic Nigerians to the Senate, with a passionate plea to the upper Legislative chamber to do the needful for the continuity of governance in the country.
“The subsequent invocation of doctrine of necessity by the senate saw Dr. Goodluck Jonathan being sworn in as acting President of Nigeria with full executive powers!
“On 8th May, 2014, after the abduction of over two hundred and seventy school girls in Chibok, Borno state and, as part of rallying the citizenry towards cooperation with the Federal government in the fight against Insurgency, I wrote inter-alia:
“Let these people know that the entire civilised world is united against their terrorist act. We are grateful to the world for standing by Nigeria at this trying time. We hope and pray that the young ladies will be reunited with their respective families in the days to come.
“Now is not the time to play politics. Now is also not the time to trade blames and amplify our ideological differences. The unity of Nigeria is not negotiable and nothing should divide us as a people.”
General Buhari said that PDP leaders are awfully wrong in believing that their blinkered view of the Nation’s affairs, due to the affliction of selective amnesia, can detract from the determination of Nigerians to use their votes to effect the desired change in the leadership of the Nation in February, 2015. “Indeed, Nigerians are angry and cannot be swayed by the mendacious narrative of the apparatchiks of a sinking ruling party.
“At 71, I still irrevocably committed to the wholesome well-being of Nigerian people in livable environment under a secure Nation space.”
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It is our fervent prayers that the 'People's General' will continue to enjoy God's protection and guidance. Whoever thinks that he can undo what God has done in the personality of General Buhari will have Almighty God to contend with. Ride on General, we are behind you. All their arsenals will be turned against themselves, by God's special grace.