FORMER Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of playing to the gallery on security, a reason he argued has made the Boko Haram insurgency assume a dangerous dimension in the last four years.
Reacting to a statement by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, accusing him of playing politics with the insurgency and unpatriotically refusing to join hands with Federal Government to address the problem until he is elected president, Buhari said he is “disheartened by the grotesque characterization of his personality” by PDP.
He insisted that Boko Haram will be a thing of the past if he is elected, adding that he remains a patriot who played crucial roles in getting Jonathan sworn-in as acting president in 2010.
In a statement by Engr. Rotimi Fashakin, the presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, said he is “horrified by the bare-faced falsehood, insidious fallacy and scurrilous untruth contained in the 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.
“It is an irreproachable fact that Boko Haram insurgency has assumed this intolerably dangerous dimension in the last four years, because this regime has chosen to play devious politics with a national calamity.
“The same known founders of the dreaded insurgency group have become the confidants of the President. On September 9, in Djamena, Chad, Nigeria’s President, Chadian President and one of these elements were photographed in a meeting together.
“At that time, APC, through its spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said inter-alia: ‘This action by President Jonathan confirms what 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’.
“While 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 Jonathan.
“Aside his show of undisguised patriotic love for Nigeria in his glorious career in the Nigerian military, General Buhari has always shown statesman-like interventions at critical times in the nation’s current democratic order.
In January 14, 2010, whilst a tiny cabal tried to hold the entire nation to ransom, thus preventing the Vice President Goodluck Jonathan from assuming the role of Acting President, General Muhammadu Buhari 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.
“In May 8, after the abduction of over 270 school girls in Chibok, Borno State, and as part of rallying the citizenry towards cooperation with the Federal Government in the fight against Insurgency, General Buhari wrote inter-alia:
“‘Let these people know that the entire civilized 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.’
Preaches unity
“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.
“Without a doubt, 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.”

JECBOSS:
Buhari has lost it. This is one of the reasons I wouldn't want this old man to return to power. Let him leave the stage for younger generation. Anyway, he'll surely lose again. 2003, 2007, 2011 and now 2015 will still end up the same way. He remains a Specialist in Failure.

ceo4eva:

lol
the e-warriors go soon pounce on u.
I'm following with keen interest.

It is not clear when Boko Haram came into being. A common account of the group’s origin
traces it to 2002, when Mohammed Yusuf, a charismatic preacher, became its leader. To
Nigeria’s intelligence community, however, its true historical roots hark back to 1995, when
Abubakar Lawan established the Ahlulsunna wal’jama’ah hijra, or Shabaab group (Muslim Youth
Organization), in Maiduguri, Borno state.10 The group flourished as a nonviolent movement
until 2002, when Yusuf assumed leadership. It has appeared over time under various names,
such as the Muhajirun, Hijrah, Ahlis Sunnah wal Jama’a, Yusufiyyah, and Nigerian Taliban.
Boko Haram’s ideology is premised on an extreme Islamic teaching that rejects most
Western ideas and institutions as un-Islamic. This rejection earned the group its popular
name: Boko Haram literally means “Western education is forbidden.” However, the group
prefers to be called by its real name, Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati wal Jihad, meaning
“people committed to the propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and jihad.” Its core objective
is to replace the secular Nigerian state with a regime adhering to strict Islamic sharia
law, applicable throughout the entire country.

JECBOSS:
Buhari has lost it. This is one of the reasons I wouldn't want this old man to return to power. Let him leave the stage for younger generation. Anyway, he'll surely lose again. 2003, 2007, 2011 and now 2015 will still end up the same way. He remains a Specialist in Failure.

Its history of violence dates to December 24, 2003, when it attacked police stations and
public buildings in the towns of Geiam and Kanamma in Yobe state. Members occupied two
buildings for several days, hoisting the flag of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement over the
camps. Soldiers and police removed them only after killing eighteen of them and arresting
dozens more.11 The sect had earlier established a base they called Afghanistan in Kanamma
village in northern Yobe state. In Maiduguri, Mohammed Yusuf was already drawing youth
to him through his preaching about the excesses of government officials, culminating in his
frequent declaration of secular education as haram (forbidden) to Muslims.12 His preaching
attracted youth from Yobe and Borno states, as well as neighbouring countries—Cameroon,
Chad, and Niger

eleojo23:
Whenever these people(politicians) talk I don't know whether they are actually concerned about the state of the nation or they are just doing so for their own political gains.

JECBOSS:
Buhari has lost it. This is one of the reasons I wouldn't want this old man to return to power. Let him leave the stage for younger generation. Anyway, he'll surely lose again. 2003, 2007, 2011 and now 2015 will still end up the same way. He remains a Specialist in Failure.

He insisted that Boko Haram will be a thing of the past if he is elected,

ce4eva:

Obviously, they're after their own selfish interest.

biafranqueen:
Least we also forget the history of the founder
http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/SR348-Why_do_Youth_Join_Boko_Haram.pdf

Firefire:
Accusations and counter accusations.


I am watching from far...

eleojo23:
Whenever these people(politicians) talk I don't know whether they are actually concerned about the state of the nation or they are just doing so for their own personal political gains.

From what I see, all of them (ruling or opposition) have been playing politics with the whole thing when they are all supposed to join hands and fight the evil.

PassingShot:
Stupid PDP. The man you wickedly and shamelessly accused of sympathizing or even sponsoring Boko Haram without any remote proof is the same man you're now accusing of not joining hands with you to fight it?

Whether PDP likes it or not, GEJ is going back to Otuoke where he belongs. He is not fit to run a LG as a chairman let alone a country even if that country is populated by im.beciles.

Pennyways:
we all know that your brain is not functioning properly, but do you think that buhari has no hands in boko haram? wait, idioot, let me remind you how boko haram was started cos either you were not born at that time or your lost memory couldn't pick it. boko haram was started as a vigilante group in the north east before sprayed all over the northern states, when bokoharam was still a vigilante group the so called norther leaders use them to fight their selfish interest, such as politican abmitions and their useless sharia law, using the to fight sharia law and constant recite of quran make them fight illicit war all in the name of fighting for Allah. do you think your Buhari is decent enough when mentioning bokoharam and their sponsors? we know he is smart enough when he fake the nation with common explosive firework just to convince Nigerian in his invovolement in bokoharam issuse or stamp himself innocent. now bokoharam has explode like and harmattan fire you guys blame it on Jonathan. let me call your stuppid mindset together by telling you that our President Jonathan shall not vacate Aso Rock till 2019.

PassingShot:


Got no time for untrained semi-illiterate Nincompoop.

Kutunban:
From Buhari statement, he is only trying to show Nigerians that he contributed in bringing GEJ to be acting President after the demise of late Musa Yar'adua and also claiming that some cabal tried holding the nation to ransom, while avoiding the main accusation about playing politics with the security situation.

Its quite unfortunate that the only major point the opposition has against GEJ is insecurity, which Nigerians know that it was a plan work of some enemies of Nigeria. Politics is like chess before you make a move think of the three possible counter moves of your opponent least you will be checkmated.

GEJ till 2019

Abagworo:


What has Jonathan achieved in Southeast/South-South where I live? It is such a shame that some people will see the truth and keep a blind eye to it. Nigeria is in deep trouble and needs urgent saviour. Buhari has the ability to end our worst enemy which is corruption. End to corruption will improve security.

Kutunban:
From Buhari statement, he is only trying to show Nigerians that he contributed in bringing GEJ to be acting President after the demise of late Musa Yar'adua and also claiming that some cabal tried holding the nation to ransom, while avoiding the main accusation about playing politics with the security situation.

Its quite unfortunate that the only major point the opposition has against GEJ is insecurity, which Nigerians know that it was a plan work of some enemies of Nigeria. Politics is like chess before you make a move think of the three possible counter moves of your opponent least you will be checkmated.

GEJ till 2019