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Some Northerners Frustrated Jonathan’s Efforts To Crush Boko Haram – Babangida Aliyu
Former Niger State governor Babangida Aliyu, has revealed that some Northerners made it difficult for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to successfully prosecute the war against Boko Haram.
Aliyu popularly dubbed as “Chief Servant” made the revelation in an interview with the Punch newspaper.
Aliyu said, “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.
“Many northerners misconstrued his (Jonathan) position at that time and for political purposes, they threw many arguments that made it impossible for the proper articulation and proper implementation of policies that would have got rid of Boko Haram and now, we still have them till today.
“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. I think based on the thinking that probably former President Jonathan wouldn’t have handed over power even if they had won, but he handed over.
“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.”
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