abuja—Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has asked Northern leaders to tell their sons and daughters to stop the insurgency.
Kuku, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee, said while receiving a letter of endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 election from the leadership of the National Associations of Nigerians Students, NANS, in Abuja at the weekend that the key to ending Boko Haram was with the leaders of the north.
According to Kuku, “We believe strongly that the northern leaders can also call their sons and daughters who are currently detonating bombs and going on suicide missions to lay down their arms and tow the path of peace.
“This is the best approach to ending the Boko Haram insurgency, which we believe is not being carried out by ghosts but human beings from a section of the country and aided and abetted by fighters from Chad and other countries just to Islamise Nigeria.
“What the North needs to do to end Boko Haram is to rise up and put an end to insurgents. Northern leader should rise to the occasion and call Boko haram leaders to order as Jonathan did when he was Vice President. We are ready to share out Niger Delta experience with them if they seek our assistance in a bid to end the problem in the North,” Kuku said.
At the ceremony held in Abuja, the President of NANS, Comrade Tijani Usman Shehu, formally presented a letter from the students’ body endorsing President Jonathan for next month’s election, claiming that he had done enough to win their hearts.
“We want to continue in the path of genuine democratic process, building strong institutions that guarantees qualitative change in terms of addressing and meeting the basic socio-economic, political and cultural needs of our people,” Tijani said.
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