Kaduna — Former head of state Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government is the biggest of three types of Boko Haram, referring to the sect that has waged a deadly campaign of violence for more than two years.
Speaking in Kaduna yesterday when he received a delegation from the Niger State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change, General Buhari said also that the next general elections must be free and fair or else there would be serious crisis in the country.
"I will like to quote Professor Ango Abdullahi that said there are three Boko Harams, including the original one led by Muhammed Yusuf who was killed and his supporters tried to take revenge in attacking the law enforcement agencies and politicians.
"There is another developed Boko Haram of criminals who steal and kill, while the biggest Boko Haram is the Federal Government," Buhari said, without expatiating on the third category.
But his comments echoed suspicion expressed in some quarters that the Boko Haram violence goes way beyond the sect founded by the late Mohammed Yusuf.
Buhari said the North was not silent on issues of insecurity as claimed by some people but that the North does not own the police, soldiers or Central Bank.
"Since the leaders now don't listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the North can do," he said.
Buhari also spoke on elections, saying: "In 2015, there must be a free and fair election or there will be a serious crisis."
"God willing by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way," he added.
Buhari has become a perennial presidential candidate since he first threw his hat into the ring in 2003. He had said he would remain in politics for life but the 2011 poll was the last he would contest in. Media reports lately said he have changed his mind.
He said yesterday the CPC should organise while he re-considers his position on whether or not to stand for election in 2015. "That was what I told those who have visited me in the past but the press wrote that I said I have changed my mind about re-contesting," he said.
Buhari said the petroleum industry has been destroyed by corruption.
"These kind of things can only happen under the type of Nigeria's current leadership; nowhere in the world can such things happen now and nowhere in the world can government increase the cost of petroleum products with more than 120 per cent. It is most insensitive. Besides the air people breathe, the next important thing to them is petroleum products," he said.
"I know more about petroleum industry than others in government because I was there for over three years as a leader. We started with Port Harcourt refinery producing 60,000 barrels per day, it was upgraded to N100,000 barrels per day. Another one was built there also in Port Harcourt producing over 150,000 barrels making a total of 250,000 barrels per day slated purely on Nigerian crude.
"I personally asked the owner to sign the contract for Warri and Kaduna refineries, 100,000 barrels each, More than 20 depots, more than 3,200 pipelines and there was even a time we were exporting 100,000 barrels per day of refined products. But this current leadership have destroyed the industry," he said.
Earlier in his remark, the chairman of Niger State chapter of CPC, Umar Shuaibu, said life in Nigeria amounted to living in a jungle where the strong freely devours the weak.
"We were apprehensive when General Buhari posited that the 2011 elections were the last he would participate as a candidate. To us that was akin to a father deserting his children at the utmost time for their need for direction. However, we received with joy the recent assurance of General's resolve to continue in politics to the end of his life," he said.
He said they visited Buhari to strengthen his resolve to continue the struggle for justice in Nigeria.
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This man continues to incite voilence and killing of innocent people in the country. I think, it is high time we rip him off all the title and stop using the our money to pay him life pension. They are used to using our money to torment us... Please, take note, fellow Nigerian, is either we stop this guy now or innocent nigerians will pay more higher price, come 2015. This is 2012 and he has virtually declared 2015 election rigged, forgeting that they, the Northern army general were forging figures for over 40 years ruining the country and the fare of over 160 Nigerians suffering today. Please, somebody stop him before it's to late. I think, we've already paid enough price.
This is the impunity characteristic of Hausa leaders that gives them away as the sponsors that stoke the barbaric islamist violence. The more they deny it, the more they leave telltale signs on their trails. Buhari's new threats of violence are further evidence to prove that Hausa/Fulani loyalty to the Nigerian project is worse than hypocritical and superficial. It does not go deeper than the inordinate urge to behave as colonial despots to keep control of the oil resources in spite of maintaining monopoly of the oil blocs. For a member of the council of state, an ex-head of state to make such threats shows how irresponsible a people can be if only to grab power. He has quickly forgotten how over 800 innocent Nigerians paid the supreme price for his reckless pronouncements after loosing in the last presidential elections. The proud choice of barbarism and deadly violence to pursue primordial agenda earns nothing but sickening stereotype for the Hausa/Fulani leaders, and indeed for the Northerners. It becomes abundantly clear that these Hausa folks regard the rest of us as lesser beings who may only be seen, but not heard. These people have come to perceive Nigeria as a jihadist conquest inheritance from a gallant son of Allah named Usman Dan Fodio. Like the pacifying feeding-bottle of the irritating, overgrown baby, the moment Hausa people are President, petroleum minister and Central Bank chief, all at the same time, it will be happy-ever-after; it will be all hail Nigeria, unity and progress, indivisibility and territorial integrity and many more of such sarcastic innuendos. The control and exploitation of the countries wealth is a koranic prescription and the tax infidels have to pay to be spared the mandatory throat slitting for rejecting conversion to islam. The slaughter of Christians at church services is the enforcement of this koranic stipulation. With infidels as president and petroleum minister, the tax in lieu is far from being paid in full. Boko Haram is no deceit; what is the denial of the northern leaders. The mayhem wrongly blamed on poverty is actually the enforcement of the koranic prescription for defaulting, “stubborn" infidels' who resist paying their tax in full. Most unfortunately, a return to the status quo that benefits a greedy, intolerant, retrogressive clan that takes pleasure in the murder of fellow compatriots is a long shot. The political terrain is no longer fertile for the sustenance of the eating-my-cake-and-having-it mentality of the northern leaders -the perfect setting that underscores the need for an urgent restructuring of the Nigerian bungle. Everybody knows it; the Hausa/Fulani know it that the game is over. Nevertheless, we all keep busy playing the ostrich and kicking the can down the road.
The Kambas and Luo politicians of Kenya who incited after-election murder of ethnic Kukuyus were summarily indictes by ICC at the Hague.Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari should be handed over to the ICC for inciting a similar violence in last April 2011 election.He and his running mate promised Nigeria a wild wild North and the Boko Haram terrorists have turned Northern Nigerian into a killing ground of innocent Nigerians.Alhajji Buhari has some questions to answer before the ICC at the Hague in the Netherland.
Its unporturnate that some didnt come to their sense upon all the hardship and insecurity in the country. I though is high time people to realise that this government is the most incompitant and inexperiace, but to my suprise their are people that are blind-folded by religious sentiment and tribalism. Gen ride on we are totally behind you. God willing we shall get ride of this currupt and incompitant government.
Weldone Genera! We thank you for saying the bitter truth!
It is obvious that this toothless dog cannot, and will never be able to tow Nigeria out of this messy quagmire. He must have been fish-brained for him to allow all these obnoxious crimes to be takin place massive corruption, lack of electricity and other amenities, inflation and above all insecurity - bombings, robbery and inter-communal crises..........
Unfortunately some people have been rendered myopic by their tribalistic sentiments and forget the adage that says " one should love his critics for they tell him his lapses." He who disagrees with the Great General's points should debunk them one after the other and not beating about the bush out of tribalistic bigotry! In fact, Nigerians are the most cowardly and naive people on earth. They remain dormant and mute, they can't rise against the ballless puppet who cannot provide the most basic amenities, punish thieves and above all, insure their safety and security.
Those who say the Great general is behind Boko Haram,are throwing their weight behind my assertion that Goodlack is a toothless dog who only barks that he knows the sponsors of Boko Haram but fails until now short of naming them let alone prosecuting them. He should do away with his worthless pride and learn from General Buhari who beat British intelligence by smuggling Umaru Dikko out of Britain in a coffin for stealing public fund.
Janar Allah ya taimaka mu dai muna bayan ka duk wuya duk dadi kuma air dama wahala bata kisa sai shan ruwa ya kare. Jiki magayi. Zakaran da Allah ya nufa da cara.........
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