Buhari Faults Clampdown On Boko-Haram Members by Elueme: 9:07pm On Jun 02, 2013

Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents.
He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.

Buhari who spoke on Sunday on a Liberty Radio programme, Guest of the Week monitored in Kaduna also admitted that the road to the registration of the All Progressive Congress (APC) was rough, pointing out that the promoters of the party were well prepared for any hitch that may arise.

Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the English version accused politicians from the Niger Delta region of starting the current in security in the country by recruiting and arming youths of the region in their desperate attempt to retain power as governors.

The former Nigerian leader said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.

While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.

According to Buhari “what is responsible for the security situation in the country is caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants. Every Nigerian that is familiar with what is happening knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all.
“What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections. So they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns; the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that, the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.

“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about 500 dollars in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month, that is if he is lucky to get employment.
“So kidnapping becomes very rampant in the South -South and the South -East. They kidnapped people and were collecting money.

“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.

“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today. You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty.

“They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
While fielding questions in English in the same programme, Buhari said that the promoters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were aware of the challenges ahead of them in an effort to get the party registered, saying “the road to merger is quite rough.

“The ruling party, with its enormous resources and its capacity for coercion has seen it as a threat and they have said it. Personally, I came to realise since 2007 that Nigerians believe that the only way to stabilise the system of multi-party democracy is for the opposition parties that have representatives right from Councillors to the National Assembly come together to deliver their constituencies democratically. This is the only way you can counter PDP’s enormous physical and material influence in the country”

He expressed optimism that the All Progressive Congress will be registered saying “by nature, I am an optimist. If I were not an optimist, I will not attempt to contest the presidency three times and end up in the Supreme Court three times. I believe we are going to be registered.

“There is a law guiding party registration which states that you must have your headquarters in the nation’s capital that can be identified by INEC and you must have a convention. All the three parties involved have held their conventions and have agreed to forsake our existing parties and go for APC.

“At the national level, we must have those who will run the party. As soon as we meet these criteria and INEC acknowledge that, 30 days after the acknowledgement, we are APC whether INEC write us and give us the registration or not”.

Speaking on the controversy surrounding the election of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Buhari said since the forum was not a legal body, he saw no reason for the controversy saying “the confusion is unfortunate.
“To me, the Governors forum is not constitutional and it is not a party affair because they are supposed to come from all the parties. There is no constitutional law as far as I can see. So, why all these row about it.

“I watched the clip of the election which seems to have been conducted in a free and fair way. But then, Jang came and said he won the election when we saw visibly on the screen how they conducted the election.
“The man who presided over the election declared the result there and then. I was surprised how Jang emerged and said he was the one that won the election and proceeded to open his own secretariat.

“So, if 36 of them can not conduct an election, Nigerians should begin to appreciate what we are in for when they are supposed to be conducting an election for over 140 million people by 2015”.

He however said that he was prepared to support anybody who emerge Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), saying “If APC fail to give me the ticket, I will remain in partisan politics and in the party. Anyone the party pick as its candidate, I will support him because I will remain in the APC”.



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From primary school straight to teacher's college. No secondary school, so probably no SSCE certificate just like our next President Buhari.

Anyway, SSCE or no SSCE certificate, there is a mighty change coming as from Feb-Buhari 2015

emalek86:
I just laugh anytime I see people supporting this man as president is it that we lack leaders or what, have never seen this man campaigning one day and lays down his objectives of what to do to better this country( pls spare me the shit of feeding school pupils and paying the unemployed no government in the world does that) I just want to see a man of courage becomes the president even Jonathan doesn't have that courage but he still have a edge over Buhari, we don't need godfatherism in this country anymore(Tinubu and Buhari) enuf said don't mention me or u die.

So a fool like u nver had of social securit,wher western govts. paid d unemployed money(stipend)? no wonder u no fit pass waec.

Mogidi:
Buhari always marry these women when they're 12 or 13yrs old, even his present wife looks 30yrs his junior.

You're a demented bigot! You're lazy too. Check history (google is free).

Most Nigerians (across tribes) who are in their 60s-80s today married their wives at very young ages. Buhari, having married his late first wife at 18, was even late. I know several Yoruba, Igbo, Calabar, Langtang, Birom, Idoma, Tiv elites today who married their wives at 16! So many elites today had their wives studying for their degrees as married women. I have met several older women across major tribes in Nigeria who married at 16-19 immediately after their Teachers' College or secondary school graduation.

I know 4 Professors, now between age range 60-70, 2 of whom are Yoruba, and the other are Idoma and Igbo, who got married at between 15 and 16, and had their entire teacher training and/or secondary education as married women in their husbands' houses, before climbing the academic ladder!

If you are lazy, try a particular page of The Punch on Saturdays/Sundays where accomplished Nigerians in their 70s, 80, 90s married their wives well before their wives were 20 years old.

Even in the Western World (especially in the US and the UK), check history, it was the norm. Women of that era married so young, some at 15!

Again, try to watch the series on Crime Investigation (CI), the DSTV channel, you will see several instances of older British and American women in their 60s, 70s, 80s today, who married at 15, 16, 17, 18!

He don't get in-laws? If not, I want make Ejike to climb him wall, like Romeo

Mogidi:
Buhari always marry these women when they're 12 or 13yrs old, even his present wife looks 30yrs his junior.

He married her at 18, read the post again. And u can find out what is his age then too. I bet u just comment ur 'reserve'

Jeezyy:
where in the post was it stated that buhari killed her?

The OP said Buhari abandoned his sick wife.

billyG:

So a fool like u nver had of social securit,wher western govts. paid d unemployed money(stipend)? no wonder u no fit pass waec.

U re gonna die u know that already