PDP
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has revealed how Boko Haram insurgency
started in Nigeria
- He said
Boko Haram terrorists were offshoots of political thuggery –
Atiku, however, faulted President Buhari's
anti corruption war
Nigeria's
former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said, he knows how Boko Haram started
in the country.
In an
interview with The African Reports, which he shared on his verified Twitter
handle, @atiku, Atiku said that, politicians were to be blamed for the
emergence of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Speaking
on how he was going to solve the challenge of Boko Haram terrorism, he said: “I
happen to know how Boko Haram came into being. They were offshoots of political
thuggery.
Politicians
used those boys in Boko Haram to win elections and then abandoned them and then
there were no jobs for them. It was the same thing with the Niger Delta. In
1998, I saw it myself and I warned people. Read more
“It’s
going to be a multifaceted approach. It will involve negotiations. It will
involve military action.
The former
vice president also criticised the President Buhari-led government’s
anti-corruption strategy, saying that, "You can’t deploy only punitive
measures to fight corruption. One way of trying to reduce corruption to the
barest minimum is also to introduce e-governance. If you are applying for a
permit, if you are applying for a passport, why not apply online? Why can’t we
also employ preventive measures to stop corruption? Read more:


