Jonathan to Buhari: Stop Boko Haram


ABUJA— President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, sent a strong message to former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to spearhead the campaign to persuade members of the Boko Haram sect to accept dialogue, as a means of ending the orgy of violence in the North.

Similarly, Jonathan asked Buhari to emulate the role he ( Jonathan) played by going to meet militants in their vast hideouts in the Niger Delta to plead with them to lay down their arms and accept the general amnesty granted by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 25, 2009.
Jonathan and Buhari

Jonathan and Buhari

Jonathan said he expected Buhari to lead the way in persuading the Boko Haram insurgents in the North to stop bombings and enter into dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to ending the violence in the region, which is threatening to disrupt the economy of the region and Nigeria.

The President, who sent the message to Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, accused the former head of state of making false allegations against him during his interview in London last week.

What Buhari told BBC in London

During the interview with the BBC, Buhari had said that the Federal Government should be held responsible for the worsening state of insecurity in Nigeria, accusing the leadership of not taking steps to halt the slide, which has claimed many lives and property in the region.

Buhari said: “The problem of terrorism is not confined to the North alone. Insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government.

“The world is very much concerned about two things — the issue of security and economic wellbeing of a nation. Security is number one. A nation can only be economically viable if there is security. But how did all these crises start? How did the crises begin and assume this dimension?

“Until now, everyday, they abduct people and receive ransoms. How was the problem reduced? How did it start? What method was employed to convince them to mellow down?

“Similarly, what we should look at is, how did the Boko Haram start? We know all these. Security is the responsibility of the government.

“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to know how this thing started and how to go about it.”

Jonathan takes on Buhari

But Okupe asked Nigerians to demand from Buhari what he had done as a leader in the North and a former head of state to halt the attacks by the sect.

He said: “Nigerians should ask him (Buhari) that as a former Head of state and as someone who wants to be president again, what he has done to end this insurgence in the country.

“Or is it when he becomes President, he will stop the insurgence? No, it does not work that way. He should emulate President Jonathan who went to the creeks of the Niger Delta canvassing peace and dialogue with the militants of the Niger Delta.

“Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood. He said in Hausa language. General Buhari is the person who sowed the wind that the nation is now reaping in whirlwind.

“He is not in any position to apportion blames on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only position he sees for not being the President is to call for violence. This government has tried as much as possible to contain some of Buhari’s unguarded statements. I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take Buhari very serious when he makes such comments.

“If there is anybody to blame, General Buhari comes number one on that list. Have you ever seen General Buhari visit BornoState or condemn the acts of the Boko Haram or condole whether Christians or Muslims that have been killed?

“A man who can traverse the whole length and breadth of Nigeria, yet he cannot use that clout that he has and get leaders together to put an end to the insurgence in the country. And yet he finds it comfortable to blame other people. What has he done as a former Head of State to help Nigeria and Nigerians stop the militancy in the North or in other parts of the country?”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/jonathan-to-buhari-stop-boko-haram/


Lets wait and see if Buhari will eventually curtail the boko haram menace.

this had beta be true

*spreads mat on space*

obioraeze: this had beta be true

what has better be true? the truth you seek is in front of you.

ayswags: *spreads mat on space*

Is this English or Latin? just curious.

Okukpe is‎​ a shameless LIAR!!

NA ONLY SMALL THING YOU SEE, THE FG PLANS TO USE THE BOKO CRISES TO;

1. CRIPPLE NORTHERN NIGERIA ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE
2. HARASS AND BLACKMAIL OPPOSITION FIGURE
3. SACK AND DISMISS TOP NORTHERN ECHO LITE IN THE GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY
4. CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL TO CONTINUE THEIR RULE
5. IMPLEMENT US GLOBAL AGENDA AGAINST MUSLIMS
6. DEPOPULATE THE CORE NORTH THRU MASS KILLINGS
7. POLITICIZE AND POLARIZE THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS
8.
9.
10.
11...

......AND FINALLY AFTER ACHIEVING ALL THOSE, THEY WOULD SEND THE REMAINS OF DILAPIDATED CORE NORTH TO NIGER REPUBLIC !

Cheap blackmail and tissues of lies from an habitual liar who speaks on behalf of a government that is pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility. If there are concrete evidence that he is behind the BH scourge, why not prosecute him instead of this campaign of calumny, looking for a fall guy? Is Government trying to abdicate her responsibility of securing lives and properties to the Same Buhari who is accused of being behind the menace? Okupe should tell Nigerians if it was Buhari who granted the likes of Ndume bail, and if he is the reason why Modu Sherrif still remains a free man? Why not send his deputy(Sambo) to do the same just as Yaradua did with him in brokering peace with the ND militants?

Is this an admittance of failure from a man who was given the mandate to protect life and properties in the country asking an ordinary civilian to do his job for him?

If he cant perform then resign soon you go ask people to come help you nyansh Patience

Retardeen never cease to amaze

He said: “Nigerians should ask
him (Buhari) that as a former
Head of state and as someone
who wants to be president
again, what he has done to end
this insurgence in the country.
“Or is it when he becomes
President, he will stop the
insurgence? No, it does not work
that way. He should emulate
President Jonathan who went to
the creeks of the Niger Delta
canvassing peace and dialogue
with the militants of the Niger
Delta.

doyin okupe refused to make sense in the bold part above.
He doesn't need bending two parallel lines to meet before he can struggle to make sense. Jonathan was in power when he went to meet the militant as the vice president while Buhari is just an ordinary citizen now though a former military head of states.

MEND bombed Abuja on October 1st and they are yet to be called terrorist.

Some people forget that Boko Haram wasn't so popular before October 1st.


SMALL THING REMAIN THEY GO ALSO SAY NA BOKO PEOPLE DO THAT TOO, GOD WOULD EXPOSE YOUR HIDDEN AGENDAS SOON.

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Dospix:
The President, who sent the message to Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, accused the former head of state of making false allegations against him during his interview in London last week.

Jonathan takes on Buhari

But Okupe asked Nigerians to demand from Buhari what he had done as a leader in the North and a former head of state to halt the attacks by the sect.

He said: “Nigerians should ask him (Buhari) that as a former Head of state and as someone who wants to be president again, what he has done to end this insurgence in the country.

“Or is it when he becomes President, he will stop the insurgence? No, it does not work that way. He should emulate President Jonathan who went to the creeks of the Niger Delta canvassing peace and dialogue with the militants of the Niger Delta.

“Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood. He said in Hausa language. General Buhari is the person who sowed the wind that the nation is now reaping in whirlwind.

“He is not in any position to apportion blames on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only position he sees for not being the President is to call for violence. This government has tried as much as possible to contain some of Buhari’s unguarded statements. I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take Buhari very serious when he makes such comments.

“If there is anybody to blame, General Buhari comes number one on that list. Have you ever seen General Buhari visit Borno State or condemn the acts of the Boko Haram or condole whether Christians or Muslims that have been killed?

“A man who can traverse the whole length and breadth of Nigeria, yet he cannot use that clout that he has and get leaders together to put an end to the insurgence in the country. And yet he finds it comfortable to blame other people. What has he done as a former Head of State to help Nigeria and Nigerians stop the militancy in the North or in other parts of the country?”

Okupe is silly for coming out with this press release, he should have known it is not everything that come within your earshot you react to, when silence can be golden, even more as the President media aide.

And in actual fact, the quoted gibberish above is more harm to the President, than good.

General Buhari is a stakeholder as far as the entity called Nigeria is concerned, he enjoys inalienable rights to voice out his reservation(s), whenever and wherever he deem fits and I don"t see how his 'opinion' should be guided, or subjected to Presidential dictum.

Granted he has a role to play in the current restiveness in the north, General Buhari is not duty-bound to condemn Boko haram or visit Borno State to condole the Christians or Muslims that have been killed as Okupe said.

For him to come this far joining issues with a private individual airing his opinion on a selected platform smack of desperation to please, and an all time low in my opinion.

Going further with his 'Bole Kaja' conjectures to claim "Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood clearly shows Okupe has outlived his usefulness in the Presidency.

General Buhari is a respected figure in the polity, irrespective of his perceived failings, and it will be wrong for dubious character like Okupe to make attempt at running down his personality just for the sake of it.

How buhari won take tell e workers make dem stop work, wen dem never pay alawi sorry amnesty

jes peeping....i ve nofin 2 say

Maxymilliano:

Okupe is silly for coming out with this press release, he should have known it is not everything that come within your earshot you react to, when silence can be golden, even more as the President media aide.

And in actual fact, the quoted gibberish above is more harm to the President, than good.

General Buhari is a stakeholder as far as the entity called Nigeria is concerned, he enjoys inalienable rights to voice out his reservation(s), whenever and wherever he deem fits and I don"t see how his 'opinion' should be guided, or subjected to Presidential dictum.

Granted he has a role to play in the current restiveness in the north, General Buhari is not duty-bound to condemn Boko haram or visit Borno State to condole the Christians or Muslims that have been killed as Okupe said.

For him to come this far joining issues with a private individual airing his opinion on a selected platform smack of desperation to please, and an all time low in my opinion.

Going further with his 'Bole Kaja' conjectures to claim "Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood clearly shows Okupe has outlived his usefulness in the Presidency.

General Buhari is a respected figure in the polity, irrespective of his perceived failings, and it will be wrong for dubious character like Okupe to make attempt at running down his personality just for the sake of it.

if Buhari promised to make Nigeria ungovernable who granted Ali Ndume and co bail? Was it Buhari. You guys like to remind Nlders about what Buhari said but not what Disgruntled PDP member said after Gej clinched the PDP ticket for '11 presidential polls.

dayokanu: Is this an admittance of failure from a man who was given the mandate to protect life and properties in the country asking an ordinary civilians to do his job for him?

If he cant perform then resign soon you go ask people to come help you nyansh Patience

Retardeen never cease to amaze

asking ordinary citizens? So a former nigeria head of state who is also a prominent muslium, widely respected by his people and who they'll listen to is now "an ordinary citizen"? I don't know how narrow minded you're but this how government works, all hands on deck to solve national problems, that is how it is done worldwide and buharu's response to this will determine how matured he really is.

Suntzung: NA ONLY SMALL THING YOU SEE, THE FG PLANS TO USE THE BOKO CRISES TO;

1. CRIPPLE NORTHERN NIGERIA ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE
2. HARASS AND BLACKMAIL OPPOSITION FIGURE
3. SACK AND DISMISS TOP NORTHERN ECHO LITE IN THE GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY
4. CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL TO CONTINUE THEIR RULE
5. IMPLEMENT US GLOBAL AGENDA AGAINST MUSLIMS
6. DEPOPULATE THE CORE NORTH THRU MASS KILLINGS
7. POLITICIZE AND POLARIZE THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS
8.
9.
10.
11...

......AND FINALLY AFTER ACHIEVING ALL THOSE, THEY WOULD SEND THE REMAINS OF DILAPIDATED CORE NORTH TO NIGER REPUBLIC !

All you can do is to copy post from thread to thread, later you blame the wintch in your village for your failures in life, when you cant use your time for positive things, i pitty for ur life

I got your message, trying to tanish the image of Buhari against 2015 indirectly

Is Buhari above the law to be prosecuted? If he is the one behind the BH menace

Why GEJ never met with Buhari to discuss the issue till when Buhari voice out?

Buhari was relevant in the past office and Sambo is more relevant now, why not send sambo that is in the same shoe with GEJ when he went for the ND peace dialogue

** the ringing tone Gej is sending to Nigerian is that he can not solve the BH problem as the president but he will keep promising us and given us (void) date to end it**

* i keep saying that Gej always take his vomit and play kids politics,most of the 40 lapdogs that keep shouting no amnest bcus your boss said that, did you read DIALOGUE from the message above?

Gej may have good intention but Nigeria is too big for him to handle with too much godfathers that he cant step on their toes and that wont make him fulfilled.

So he should please step aside.

Suntzung: MEND bombed Abuja on October 1st and they are yet to be called terrorist.

Some people forget that Boko Haram wasn't so popular before October 1st.


SMALL THING REMAIN THEY GO ALSO SAY NA BOKO PEOPLE DO THAT TOO, GOD WOULD EXPOSE YOUR HIDDEN AGENDAS SOON.

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Same old rubbsh from another thread, you see how foolish u r, u just in a hury to comment, now you forget to even wipe out the icons of "modify, quote and report"from where you copied frm. Now to answer this rubbish you keep copy and pasting across every thread thinking is a reasonable post, Mend bomb abuja, oct 1st 2010, when where they granted amnesty? You so dumb to know that if they wher granted amnesty before oct 2010 any act carried out in the name of that group there after is criminal and purnishable as such, henry okah is paying dearly for it now, or na ur papa e bomb wen make am dey prison, my friend, u better go renew your card

i dont know why the presidency fears buhari. the way the presidency react is making me believe the conspiracy that the govt deliberately allowed the post election violence to take place by not putting enough security, then going to the media to call buhari to provide security during the period. i stiill dont understand why they love twisting buhari's words whenever his speaks in hausa.

the presidency is out to twist and blackmail simple. buhari doesnt want to get himself involve in boko haram because presidency asking him to do something will turn around and say he his dia leader. wont bother to say much

Is this Okupe's style of saying Gen. Buhari knows those behind the mask called Boko haram. (How can someone persuade unknown group)

Anyway, Okus should tell GEJ that we voted him in to protect our lives and properties by all means within his reach. His best hasn't been good enogh sir.

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omowolewa: This is Okupe's style of saying Gen. Buhari know those behind the mask called Boko haram. (How can someone persuade unknown group)

Anyway,

Or u mean "hw can someone ask for amnesty for an unknown group"?

Symphony007: asking ordinary citizens? So a former nigeria head of state who is also a prominent muslium, widely respected by his people and who they'll listen to is now "an ordinary citizen"? I don't know how narrow minded you're but this how government works, all hands on deck to solve national problems, that is how it is done worldwide and buharu's response to this will determine how matured he really is.

If that is your position then, where will you place IBB, Shagari and Abdulsalam? Is Buhari now the only former Head of State and Northern leader alive?

Does that means this government have run out of ideas to govern Nigeria? They better pack and go if this is all they can think of now.

Don't mind the Daura-General,maybe he wanted to say that GEJ should advertise amnesty first and let's see how boko brother will troop out to accept it (In Rev. Hassan Kuka's words)

Or perhaps GEJ should dislogue with captured one.

brownlord:

Or u mean "hw can someone ask for amnesty for an unknown group"?

.

All i will just say is dat may thunder and lightening fire all those politicians playing politricks with people lives whether it is buhari or gej cos its difficult to really predict who are those sponsoring boko haram but if all it takes for peace to reign in d north is for buhari to create a platform for dialogue btw fg and boko haram i see no reason why he should reject d offer since he will be serving d country by doing so or is dat not reason he wants to become president of nigeria he can start by bringing peace to his region since it is clear dat d president has failed and is indirectly admitting failure with regards to security which ought to be d top priority of a government

Mr doyin,never seem to amazed me because he's an opportunist that knows noting and a puppet,maybe he should first explain to Nigerians the connections,his party have with boko haram,saying boko haram are unknow group is childish talk,two or three boko haram leaders were arrested in pdp goverment house up north and a pdp serving senator was also arrested for having connection with boko haram,does these things still make boko haram unknow group,I just think mr doyin is suffering from mental disorder or the president for saying boko haram is unknow group, a nusery one pupil knows there is a connection between boko haram and pdp,if kabiru sokota was arrested and made to exscape then rearrested at pdp goverment house and are all these things in anyway connected to buhari jst because he was saying the truth and why would buhari travel to borno state to perform your duty,d president who is the commander in chief of armed force was scared of traveling to borno until some governons went there before he was persuaded to travel there nd when he eventually went to borno,he simply ask for stand still movement because he was scared of boko haram just has buhari is scared of his life!MR doyin should know that some of us knows, Boko haram is PDP and PDP is boko haram and he should stop barking on anyone that critisized their administrations,This is just the worst administration so far in Nigeria Histroy where corruptions has gotten to another dimention.Mr doyin you and your Oga at the top should jst talk to Ali Ndume since u release him,he should have solution to boko haram problem not buhari.

Ahhhh

Suntzung: NA ONLY SMALL THING YOU SEE, THE FG PLANS TO USE THE BOKO CRISES TO;

1. CRIPPLE NORTHERN NIGERIA ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE
2. HARASS AND BLACKMAIL OPPOSITION FIGURE
3. SACK AND DISMISS TOP NORTHERN ECHO LITE IN THE GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY
4. CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL TO CONTINUE THEIR RULE
5. IMPLEMENT US GLOBAL AGENDA AGAINST MUSLIMS
6. DEPOPULATE THE CORE NORTH THRU MASS KILLINGS
7. POLITICIZE AND POLARIZE THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS
8.
9.
10.
11...

......AND FINALLY AFTER ACHIEVING ALL THOSE, THEY WOULD SEND THE REMAINS OF DILAPIDATED CORE NORTH TO NIGER REPUBLIC !

sharrap!!!u'r spilling rubbish out of ur dirty mouth.as far as i knw,jonathan is 100percent correct.dat tin called buhari is guilty.

He should go to their hide out to persuade them,

You want Buhari dead we all know, but that's not the best way to go about it na? Haba!!!

Power no be do or die! Y do u want him to commit suicide?

Abi since when dd Boko boys start to dey look face