PDP Responsible For Formation, Sustenance Of Boko Haram Insurgency Says Buhari

Former Head of State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), has urged Nigerians not to look beyond the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, if they want answers to the formation, growth and sustenance of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

He stated this in response to a claim by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, that Buhari’s directive to his supporters prior to the 2011 elections that they should unleash violence should he lose and his allegory of the “bloody monkey and baboon in respect of the 2015″,
were proves of his involvement with the sect. allegory of the bloody monkey and baboon in respect of the 2015 election
Buhari responded through the former national publicity secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin in Abuja, on Monday.
He said Metuh, the PDP spokesman, was showing as much desperation as Joseph Goebbels in the dying days of the [Adolf] Hitler regime.
According to him, it is sad that Metuh decided to engage in despicable fabrications with a view to gaining political advantage through iniquitous revisionism.
Fashakin said, “The former National Security Adviser, Late Gen. Andrew Azazi, was unequivocal in his assertion that the power play in the PDP was the raison d’etre of the Boko Haram insurgency. Apparently, the discomfort caused within the PDP hierarchy was the reason for his sacking.
“Furthermore, we knew of the confessional statement to the State Security Service by one of the PDP stalwarts that the contact with Boko Haram was with the imprimatur of the Vice President Namadi Sambo”.
He said it was well understood that after the “ruinous” Jonathan regime had impoverished the teeming population of Nigerians, through its deliberate policy of leadership-centred corruption, there will obviously be a desire to attempt to deflect the pressure put on it by Nigerians.
He cited the ill-fated recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Immigration Service as one, out of several examples of the Jonathan administration’s exploitation of poor Nigerian youths on the pretext of providing elusive job placements.
Fashakin said, “General Muhammadu Buhari has proven his mettle as a patriotic Nigerian leader, whose passion for the virility of the Nigerian nation is untrammeled.
“He is still the reference point in transparent, honest and compassionate leadership. This, obviously, contrasts the present leadership that constantly evinces larcenous disposition in its governance of the nation. Indeed, Nigerians are asking: where is the $20bn that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has not remitted to the Federation Account?”
Attempts to get an official reaction from the PDP were unsuccessful as Mr. Metuh’s mobile telephone was switched off.