barcanista:
1. Boko Haram was founded by then opposition Governor and GMB's ex-associate, Alhaji Sheriff in 2002. Borno has been opposition state since 1999 and BH stronghold. Adamawa has been PDP's stronghold even in 2011. Yobe has been opposition but due to its proximity to Borno, it extended there. Pleateau State has been PDP/GeJ's stronghold. Same with Kaduna South. GEJ reside in FCT. It is not true that the insurgency is only dominant in APC's stronghold.

4. Anybody can destroy their stronghold to gain sympathy. Again BH isn't restricted to APc states. I have answered earlier.

5.... It could even be sending assassin and tagging it BH.

6. Which PDP said so? However, the positions of the opposition since 2013 has not been favorable and patriotic by my judgement.

7. Most terrorists operations don't leave trace.

8. Most of the people arrested are "boys" who were contracted by a 3rd party that won't tell them who they are. They can't provide info.

9. Saboteurs, powerful networks of the terrorists etc are also uping their game as the government is upping theirs.

10. As at the beginning, the terrorists were hiding behind civilian population. It was difficult to distinguish terrorist from civilians.

13. Nigerian Soldiers were not expertised in guerrila war as at then. Again the SoE was not supported by some northern population and the APC, cooperation was minimal or non existing and you can't rule out saboteurs.

15. Sponsors of terrorism are very powerful, wealthy and well connected people. They have sympathisers and employees everywhere. It is not sane to ask the number 15.

GeneralBosco:
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What does this even mean??

WisdomFlakes:
It wasn't until the Boko Haram threat started really threatening GEJ's re-election that he started taking them seriously. So yes, the conspiracy theorists might be up to something when they say Boko Haram is a PDP invention.

agabaI23:
I will come back with a back up. Barcanista has done justice to the questions. I hope you guys will answer mine when I ask.

PhockPhockMan:
10) Terrorist is terrorist, nothing like ragtag.
If it's so, you should also ask why USA allowed Alquida and Isil to grow from ragtag to their current devastating height.

Chigold101:
bokoharam started burning churches in 2009 (my church was burnt down in maidugiri, my pastor killed onthe altar) then it meant nothing to northern muslems.
Fast foward! On 9th March 2013 (www.vanguardngr.com) Bornu elders asked GEJ to withdraw JTF. GEJ told them to clean up their home of insurgency and he will withdraw JTF, that they never did.
On June 3rd 2013 (www.punchng.com) General Muhammadu Buhari said kiling BH is war against the north.

Now tell me, how can you bab the hair of a man who is walking?

Northern leaders were surpoting or sympathising with BH until recently when BH grew out of their control.

They are making progress in APC states because that is where they have enough water to grow. The government of Adamawa under Nyaku was giving them money.
Bornu state governor is using BH as a tool to win re-election. He has the PVCs of all IDPs from his state & he will use it to rig election by authenticatingthe cards with the card reader & fill the “incidence“ form then somepeople will be their to thumb print.

Yobe & Bornu states will force all those in camp to vote for APC if they dont return to their homes before election.

There is more to what you read in papers & the reality on ground.

barcanista:
I believe that some Northern leaders from their statements were sympathetic to bh. APC is only interested in playing politics with it. They never supported any move of the government since Day 1. Just that my sympathy is with the innocent northern people who are the victims of all these.

Chigold101:
my brother sometimes i pity them but many times i dont. Because many of them initially supported bh. I mean the so called “inocent ones.“ it is only the christians that have been against bh from the unset. Forget all this “end of the year“ propaganda.

GeneralBosco:

Another important question. If APC/Buhari was sponsoring Bokoharam, why would they choose Buhari as negatiator?? Does that make sense?

jdilight:


One answer will take care of all the questions

Because they thought it will make the President resign or step down before election, hence the clamour for his resignation. Since it didn't turn out as planned, it back fired.

Lesson: always have a plan B, which must be better than plan A

adeyemi2015:
If GMB really knows about BokoHaram as PDP claimed, why on earth is he not in detention yet probably for questioning by either the Military Intel Unit or the DSS?
Or is he Mr. Untouchable?!
Why the United Nation, EU and especially the United States and UK have not blacklisted him in the Book of Terrorist?
They said Tinubu is corrupt, claimed they get facts about his corrupt practices, yet he's allowed to be walking freely without being charged or tried!
SMH for the clueless Nigerians!

adeyemi2015:
If GMB really knows about BokoHaram as PDP claimed, why on earth is he not in detention yet probably for questioning by either the Military Intel Unit or the DSS?
Or is he Mr. Untouchable?!
Why the United Nation, EU and especially the United States and UK have not blacklisted him in the Book of Terrorist?
They said Tinubu is corrupt, claimed they get facts about his corrupt practices, yet he's allowed to be walking freely without being charged or tried!
SMH for the clueless Nigerians!

1. Boko Haram was founded by then opposition Governor and GMB's ex-associate, Alhaji Sheriff in 2002 . Borno has been opposition state since 1999 and BH stronghold. Adamawa has been PDP's stronghold even in 2011. Yobe has been opposition but due to its proximity to Borno, it extended there. Pleateau State has been PDP/GeJ's stronghold. Same with Kaduna South. GEJ reside in FCT. It is not true that the insurgency is only dominant in APC's stronghold.

2. How do you mean BH has attacked only APC figures and properties? Need I remind you that a PDP chieftain was murdered in Plateau state of recent? All the bombings and attacks were just "APC"? While I have never pointed anybody as "BH sponsor", it is hypocritical to make such assertion. Meanwhile, I believe BH membership isn't peculiar to a particular party, there are enemies within the PDP as well as in APC. I won't pass judgement until I get my fact.

Speaking on the death of Mr. Mwadvwang, a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly representing Riyom, Daniel Dem, condemned the acts and called on security agencies to fish out those killing innocent citizens in the state.
Unknown gunmen had also killed a ward chairman of the All Progressive Congress last Sunday in Barkinladi.
https://www.nairaland.com/2156622/solomon-mwadvwang-shot-dead-plateau
If the attack on the PDP Chieftain in Plateau State is the only occurrence you could point out as a Bokoharam attack, then you've haven't answered question number two. #fail

3. I have answered 1 and 2.

[s]4. Anybody can destroy their stronghold to gain sympathy. Again BH isn't restricted to APc states. I have answered earlier.[/s]

5. BH started with churches and christians. Then moved to government offices. Then political leaders. Please, note that anybody from the north can contract BH to assassinate supposed political opponent in the north. It could even be sending assassin and tagging it BH.

@1st Bolded...Don't misquote me but I have to ask, "why has Bokoharam now started bombing Muslims too??" Does that make any sense to their so called "Sharia ideology'"??

@2nd Bolded...On a lighter note, If 70% of Bokoharam's attacks are on APC's stronghold and APC members, it is plausible to say that the PDP is responsible for your so called "assassin attacks" on APC so they can blame it on Bokoharam.

[s]6. Which PDP said so? However, the positions of the opposition since 2013 has not been favorable and patriotic by my judgement.
https://www.nairaland.com/2192450/chronicle-apc-positions-boko-haram[/s]

[s]7. Most terrorists operations don't leave trace. Read on terrorism[/s]

8. Most of the people arrested are "boys" who were contracted by a 3rd party that won't tell them who they are. They can't provide info. However, Senator Zanna, Ali Ndume are undergoing trial but not enough evidence to nail them. Sheriff we were told is under investigation. But even in the USA, getting sponsors insnt a day job. May God expose them all.

9. Saboteurs, powerful networks of the terrorists etc are also uping their game as the government is upping theirs.

10. As at the beginning, the terrorists were hiding behind civilian population. It was difficult to distinguish terrorist from civilians.

12. See 11

13. Nigerian Soldiers were not expertised in guerrila war as at then. Again the SoE was not supported by some northern population and the APC, cooperation was minimal or non existing and you can't rule out saboteurs.

14. That's a farce.

[s]15. Sponsors of terrorism are very powerful, wealthy and well connected people. They have sympathisers and employees everywhere. It is not sane to ask the number 15.[/s]

I believe I have answered you. Thanks

1. Why was (is) "Boko Haram" busy destroying states and areas that the opposition party will win convincingly in the presidential election?

2. If we are to believe that the opposition were the brains and architects of "Boko Haram", then why is it that they have never ever attacked and destroyed any prominent PDP figure or their properties?

3. If the opposition have the capability of arming "terrorists" with armour tanks, RPGs, AA Guns, military uniforms, military trucks, helicopters and the ability to command soldiers to vanish from military checkpoints, wouldn't they have targeted to destroy PDP strongholds and their assets?

4. Why would the opposition seek to destroy their own strongholds anyway? To achieve what?

5. Why was (is) "Boko Haram" targeting to destroy basically only prominent northern politicians and their traditional rulers and their communities?

6. In the light of questions 1 to 5 above, why has there been a deliberate campaign of lies and propaganda by the PDP and their religious wing that collect bribes in billions of naira that "Boko Haram" is the baby of the opposition?

7. Of all the cars used by "suicide" bombers retrieved from the scene of their attacks, to whom were the cars traced after forensic investigations? Why is it that nothing is ever heard after such evidences have been collated at the scenes since 2011?

8. At the last count, over 500 hundred "Bokoharam" suspects have been in detention since 2009, but why is it that government hasn't been able to come clean on those sponsoring the "terrorists", and why is it that, with such a huge treasure trove, government has not been able to know and curtail the operational methods of the "terrorists"?

9. Why did the "terrorists" become stronger after a scandalous 33 billion dollars (over 4 trillion naira) was expended on the so called war against them?

10. Isn't it curious and suspicious that a ragtag group called "Boko Haram" whose bulk of fighters possibly had only one week trainings could overcome and overrun our military men who spend 5 years in the NDA, some months in Jaji, and some months also at the National War College in Abuja apart from several overseas trainings?

11. Why was it that, at a point from 2013, the Nigerian military was not taking the war to "Boko Haram" camps in the deserts of the northeast instead of waiting for "Boko Haram" to come on the offensive?

12. Since when has repulsion become the best form of defence instead of attack?

13. Why did "Boko Haram" have the most freedom to operate and destroy so many towns and villages during all the period of State of Emergency that was supposed to have made them immobile?

14. Was the State of Emergency some fraud pulled off to empower the "terrorists" and make the targeted communities sitting ducks for easy elimination?

15. Who was providing "Boko Haram" with fuel and other logistics in their camps considering how they easily move with long convoys of trucks to operate without challenge?

GeneralBosco:

Another important question. If APC/Buhari was sponsoring Bokoharam, why would they choose Buhari as negatiator?? Does that make sense?

otukpo:



What a question!

GeneralBosco:
*Edited at about 9:00pm*
I opened this thread asking Barcanista and PDP supporters the 15 questions above on Bokoharam and only Barcanista was able to give any reasonable response. I promised to tackle his half-baked answers one after the other as I was busy then. My reply in green, barcanista's responses in red.
This is a very ignorant response from you Barca. The fact that Rochas Okorocha is an APC Governor doesn't mean Imo State is APC's stronghold, same goes for Amaechi and Rivers as well as Oshiomole and Edo State. Buhari under the platform of CPC pulled about 13 million votes in the 2011 elections, over 70% of those votes came from Northern states despite eleven (11) of those states being governed by PDP and only one (Nassarawa State) was governed by CPC at that time. It's 100% plausible to state that the North is Buhari/APC's stronghold in this forthcoming elections despite some of these states being governed by PDP.
Taking jurisdiction from 2010 till date (Jonathan's Tenure), it is also plausible to say that the North has been the worst hit from Bokoharam's activities. For about a year now, Borno State (APC) has been the main playground for Bokoharam. FCT has recorded only one (not verified ) Bokoharam attack (the Nyanya Bomb Blast) and that can't in any way be compared with the almost daily activities of Bokoharam in the North-East.
[color=#990000]I will ignore your statement about Alhaji Sheriff forming Bokoharam despite Jonathan romancing with him some months ago.

If Buhari could pull about 70% of Northern votes in 2011 despite having only one CPC governor (Nassarawa) and about 11 PDP governors, is it right to claim the North is not Buhari/APC's stronghold?? NO Barca, you're wrong on this one [/color]
Can you name one PDP Politician that has been attacked by Bokoharam??
Your statement in bold is a very cheap lie Barcanista. It was never stated anywhere in that news report that Bokoharam killed the PDP Chieftain. There is a statement from that news article that stated that an APC Chieftain was also killed some few days ago in the State.
Here's a quote from that thread:
You have answered NOTHING.
What sympathy are you talking about here? Despite the Bokoharam menace ravaging the Northeast, about 85% of South Easterners are still rooting for Jonathan, South South - about 80% so can you please tell me who APC/Buhari is soliciting for sympathy from?? The same people who would've still voted for them even without Bokoharam (North), the same people who'll still not vote for them "en block" despite Bokoharam's activities (South) ?? Again your argument here is flawed.
@1st Bolded...Don't misquote me but I have to ask, "why has Bokoharam now started bombing Muslims too??" Does that make any sense to their so called "Sharia ideology'"??
@2nd Bolded...On a lighter note, If 70% of Bokoharam's attacks are on APC's stronghold and APC members, it is plausible to say that the PDP is responsible for your so called "assassin attacks" on APC so they can blame it on Bokoharam.
@Bolded I'm surprised you can feign such ignorance, It's a shame! There has been a constant propaganda from PDP on Buhari/APC sponsoring Bokoharam. It all started from the "I will make Nigeria ungovernable Statement" which Abati falsely accused Buhari of saying. It is you Barcanista who enlightened me in one your previous threads last year how The Presidency begged for Buhari to settle with Abati out of court because it was a false accusation. Ask any unenlightened Nigerian today, "Why do you think Buhari sponsors Bokoharam", the first thing he will tell you is "how he promised to make Nigeria ungovernable". How can you now feign such cheap ignorance that PDP doesn't sponsor propaganda on APC sponsoring Bokoharam?? *sighs* In case you need more proof, here's it below how PDP shamelessly accuse APC of sponsoring Bokoharam (there are many more).
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/pdp-accuses-apc-backing-boko-haram/
We have enough traces from attacks enough to get use quality information about Bokoharam. You ended up saying nothing here...
I agree with you on the Bolded. About Ali Ndume, I won't shame/expose your previous thread on his trial...I'm sure you can remember the things you stated there. May God Expose them all!
That is incompetence on the part of the Government.
The terrorists have carried on with their activities without "hiding behind civilians" for about 3 years (they were not as strong as they are now) so what is your story about "distinguishing terrorists from civilians?
11. That is because Some northern elders including the sultan, gmb, APC and co usually cry genocide whenever the army launches an onsluaght.
@Bolded...Very hilarious, the Americans did not complete their training with the Nigerian soldiers right?? Who now trained them on Guerilla war??
With the low level of success recorded during the so-called "state of emergency", it is plausible to call it a fraud.
Very weak answer...why should a government sit back and watch it's citizens suffer because the sponsors of their suffering are "powerful, wealthy and well connected people"?? It's insane for you to give such reply #fail
Thanks for taking out time to answer my questions but your answers are really weak Barcanista. It's unfortunate you're the only PDP supporter on this forum that was able to tackle these questions but anyways, let's see back and hope that this Bokoharam menace would be over soon. My major position on this issue is that it is very insane for anyone to link Bokoharam with APC despite studying all the activities of Bokoharam and studying with them with the actions of this useless government.

otukpo:


You obviously don't understand anything about politics, ethnicity and religion in Nigeria.

PassingShot:
I don't think any of them will have an answer to these questions.

It is obvious that PDP are behind Boko Haram.

PDP is Boko Haram, Boko Haram is PDP - Andrew Azazi

Boko Haram are in my government - Goodluck Jonathan

GeneralBosco:
Agabal23, I'm really glad with your responses to those questions because Bacarnista gave many half baked responses...hope you were able to go through my reply to him". This is an enlightenment thread for everyone and I hope i'll be able to also dissect your responses on those questions today.

Btw what do you mean by APC celebrating the failed SA arms deal?? I'm surprised at such a statement.

agabaI23:
My Questions
1. Why did Buhari say that Attack on Boko Haram is attack on the North?

2. Why did he refuse to negotiate on their behalf after defending them

3. Why is it that APC responds swiftly to news of Boko haram attack and refuses to acknowledge the NA when they perform?

4. Why is it that BH has attacked each time Jonathan had a major event like declaration but never happened with Buhari's events?

5. Buhari claims to have magic wand to tackle boko haram, why has he refused to attend FEC meeting only to attend when the issue of shifting election was an item on the agenda?

6. Lets assume you are an employer and you fired an employee 30 years ago because he was destroying your business, if the same employee presents again 30 years after, will you make him the general manager without seeing any evidence that he has acquired more skills through managerial positions? You discovered he has done nothing to improve himself, will you hand over your company to him to manage for whatever reason?

7. Why did Buhari say that Abacha is not corrupt when Nigeria under him was listed as No. 1 and No.3 most corrupt during his regime?

8. You claim that Buhari is able to contain corruption, why is it that under him as a head of an agency, N25B was stolen. Was it because he lacked the ability to comprehend figures or he looked the other way because his relatives were involved?

9. Why did Buhari choose to use a company owned by his relative as a consulting and implementation company during his PTF time sideling the board?

10. Why did Buhari execute 75 % of projects in the North and only 25% in the whole of the south?

11. Considering that the economy performed dismally during his time, companies closed down because he starved them of raw materials, jobs were lost, sacked 30k soldiers, over 55k civil servants, stopped rail project in lagos leading to the loss of $75m, depleted foreign reserve,
devalued the naira from 76k to 89k to $1, he caused scarcity of commodity because forced traders to sell below cost price and broke into locked shops to sell at ridiculous prices when the owners were away, what is he going to do differently?

12. Do you know that Buhari had a house in Ikoyi? How many more does he have?
I have more questions but it will depend on your dealing with these ones with honesty....