How Fellow Northerners Worked Against Goodluck Jonathan's Plan to End Boko Haram, Former Governor Confesses
- Babangida Aliyu, an ex-governor of Niger state has revealed why former president Goodluck Jonathan could not do much to end Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
- The former governor said Jonathan did not receive the kind of support he required from northern leaders in his fight against the terrorists
- According to the governor, the northern leaders had thought that Jonathan's fight to end Boko Haram was political
A former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, has alleged that some northerners worked against ex-president Goodluck Jonathan's plan to fight and end the activities of Boko Haram insurgents across the region.
Aliyu in an interview with the Punch said former president Jonathan was hellbent on defeating Boko Haram but could not do so due to interference from these northern leaders.
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The former governor said some individuals in the north had at the time misconstrued Jonathan's plan to defeat the insurgents as political.
He said:
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“When Boko Haram started and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan’s government started doing something about it, it fell on former President Jonathan to carry on.”
Aliyu said the northerners threw in many arguments that made it impossible for the proper articulation and proper implementation of policies that would have gotten rid of Boko Haram at the time.
He also added that:
“The banditry that many of us thought was impossible to happen, I am yet to hear from anybody about the statement credited to Kawu Baraje, our former PDP national chairman in Kwara state, when he stated that they brought the bandits or Fulani from other places."
He also said that these northern leaders had the thought that Jonathan would not have handed power even if a northerner had won.
Aliyu said:
“He congratulated them even before the conclusion proper counting of votes which then took away whatever purposes of bringing those people would have served and I would have thought that if that is true, then those who brought them in would compensated them to go back to where they came from.”
He added that had the northern governors put in more effort from 2015, the banditry in the region would have been curbed by now.
National pacifier: Group reveals important reason Jonathan should contest in 2023
A group called the Nationalists Movement have asked former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest in the 2023 presidential election.
Abidde Robinson, the national coordinator of the movement made the call during a press conference in Abuja.
Robinson described Jonathan as a national pacifier explained the reasons the former Nigerian leader is to contest.
2023: Goodluck Jonathan has not accepted to join presidential race, says associate
Meanwhile, an associate of Jonathan, Chief Dikivie Ikiogha, said the ex-Nigerian leader has not accepted to join the 2023 presidential race.
He also refuted media reports that the recent meeting the group held with Jonathan in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital was to evolve strategies for his joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pursue his presidential ambition.
Ikiogha, who is the founder of a group advocating for the south-south presidency, told newsmen in Yenagoa, that it was “mischievous” for the media to report that the group met with Jonathan in order to map out strategies to return him to the presidency on the platform of APC.
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