Former Head of States and National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has debunked having connection with any member of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram.
The presidential candidate in the 2011 election gave this assertion at his CPC national secretariat in Abuja yesterday during the party’s Board of Trustees meeting.
Reacting to his recent nomination by the dreaded group as one of the mediators in the proposed peace talks between them and the Nigerian Government in Saudi Arabia, the Kastina-born politician said he doesn’t know any of them.
Buhari affirmed he did not know any religion that would support the killing of innocent people, burning of institutions and organizations.
Hear him, “I do not know any member of the Boko Haram sect. I do not believe and I do not know of any religion that will go and kill people, burn schools.
“There was a stage where I mentioned that I agreed with one intellectual where he said there are three Boko Haram, one of Muhammed Yusuf, whom we know.
“A leader of the military then in Maiduguri then did what we know in the military about internal security. They looked for Yusuf, they handed him over to the police; healthy young man and he died under a very dubious account in the police custody.
He added that, “The second Boko Haram was a criminal attacking banks and market places stealing money. They issued a statement that they are Boko Haram, and I said and I have no regret saying it, that the biggest Boko Haram is the Federal Government itself, because it has all the powers to stop anarchy in the country.
“Now the social part of the country has been paralised, economic activities have stopped. People are no longer thinking of employment, they are thinking of what to eat and how to go about the following day.”
According to Buhari, the BOT reviewed what transpired in the party from the time of the elections through the tribunals to the Supreme Court.
He said, “Among the things discussed is the matter of merger which has occupied the minds of most Nigerians. The only realistic way of consolidating the multi-party democracy system is for opposition parties to come together and fight the ruling party Peoples Democratic Party.”
The retired general has been accused of sponsoring the radical Islamist
fundamentalist.
It would be recalled that a founding member of the dreaded group, Sheikh Haliru who
later repented once said that he harbours no fear about unveiling his sponsors.
The erstwhile extremist named Buhari and other top Northern politicians as the brains behind the incessant boom, gloom and doom in the region.
He said “the man is no other person than the man they call IBB. As I am talking to you now, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists on his payroll. They are scattered all over the Country and he can use them to destroy Nigeria”.
Haliru added that: “I have documented evidences to prove that General Muhammad Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram”.
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