Nigeria: Aliyu - Boko Haram Not the Face of Islam

24 February 2013

Chairman, Northern Governors' Forum and Niger State governor, Alhaji Muazu Babangida Aliyu, Saturday said the Boko Haram insurgency was unnecessary as he attributed the problem bedevilling the North to ignorance about Islam.

Aliyu also pleaded with the former vice president, Abubakar Atiku, to rise up to the challenge and strive to salvage the North.

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