Osinbajo Says The Only Ideology Of Boko Haram, ISWAP, Others Is Pure Hatred

He said that these deadly groups have no redressible grievances and theredore there are no terms of reference for peace.

Speaking at the presentation today, July 8, of Chief Olusegun Osoba’s Memoir, titled: “Battle Line: Adventure in Journalism And Politics,” Professor Osinbajo said: “they are fanatics committed to a twisted creed. They exploit the ignorance of the tenets of Islam, poverty and exclusion, recruit men and women and use children to perpetuate the most heinous atrocities.
“They are motivated by a satanic desire to control communities by murder and terror. Whether it is in Iraq, Borno or Syria, their victims are men, women and children, Muslim or Christians, so long as they do not share their sick ideology. They target churches, mosques, markets and motor parks, where people gather, using children as human bombs to kill randomly, regardless of tribe or faith.
“I have seen the charred bodies of the dead men, women, children killed by suicide bombers in Gombe, Borno and Kano. The bombs are the ultimate agnostic destroyers, no discrimination in death.”

Vice President Osinbajo said that attempts by the political elite to delegitimize the government by the suggestions that it promotes insurgency are dangerous mainly because they help the insurgents by weakening the opposition to them.
He warned that all forms of insurgencies are evils that must be seen as the common enemy of all faiths, including Islam, quoting President Buhari who once said: “anyone who says Allahu Akbar and goes on to kill is either insane or dangerously ignorant of the tenets of Islam.”
Professor Osinajo said that the challenge for us is to recognize the religious extremism for what it is and to form alliances across faiths and ethnicities, “to destroy an evil that confronts us all. “Every evil that confronts our nation and our people can be defeated by the power of unity; a recognition that we are stronger together than apart.”
Speaking on the subject of the book presentation, the Vice President said that Chief Osoba’s life and times speaks most eloquently to the power of building bridges, finding common ground, and resisting divisive narratives, especially in a country as diverse as Nigeria; a country where it is extremely easy to find reasons to languish in stereotypes and suspicions, where far too many of us by default, lapse into ethnic camps.
“Virtually every major actor in the Nigerian story over the last six decades shows up in the pages of Chief Osoba’s book.  He tells us and I quote from page 177 of the book, “There was no nightclub I did not visit with the likes of Babangida, Ike Nwachukwu, Air Marshal Abass, Air Marshal Bello and Sam Amuka, Moses Gowon, Fela Marsh, Alhaji Usman Nagogo, Ciroma Minna, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and Isyaku Ibrahim. We tagged Isyaku Ibrahim as the Godfather of our social circle of the era.”
“Well, while I do not recommend night clubs, we must never underestimate the significance of interaction, and a willingness to understand the other person’s point of view.”