Truth about Boko Haram finally out – APC The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that sponsors of the Boko Haram insurgency are within the Presidency and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). APC National Chairman Odigie Oyegun made the allegation in Abuja yesterday at a press conference. He was commenting on the revelation by a hostage negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies, that a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff and a former Chief of Army Staff, retired General Ihejirika, were sponsors of the sect. Oyegun, who claimed that the APC had long ago advised that the issue of the Boko Haram insurgency should not be politicized, said: “Regrettably, instead of accepting this offer of cooperation, the PDP-led federal government has consistently pointed accusing fingers at our party as sponsors of Boko Haram. They have called us all sorts of derogatory names, but failed to provide any shred of evidence to support their claim. “They continued to echo the same slander about Gen. Buhari that was started by presidential spokesman Reuben Abati in 2011, and for which he and his cohorts eventually begged to settle out of court and to apologize to the General. Still we waited”, he said. He urged government to hand over the identified Boko Haram sponsors to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation and prosecution. Oyegun said insurgency was politicised as a trump card for Jonathan to get re-elected. “Gullible, duplicitous and self-serving politicians like Femi Fani-Kayode swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker, and started parroting the glaring lies. PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh, an obvious pawn on the chess board, followed suit, labelling a party that comprises Nigerians of all ethnic and religious hue a Janjaweed and Islamic party. Now he is stewing in his own juice, “he said. He also alleged that Sheriff was planted in the APC to decimate the party which he said confronted him openly during the merger negotiation. He also claimed that Chief Tom Ikimi had equally planned to hijack the APC for the Presidency before he was rejected. “President Jonathan cannot pretend not to know the alleged role that Ali Modu Sheriff has played in the establishment and growth of Boko Haram, yet he never allowed the man to even be questioned by any of the security agencies under his control. All through his time with our party, every time they accused us of sponsoring Boko Haram, on the basis of his presence, we challenged them if they had evidence to arrest any of our members who is suspected to be a sponsor, they never did”, he said.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:37:25 +0000
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