There is no link between Buhari, Boko Haram – Femi Fani Kayode

President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation has said there is no evidence linking a former Head of State who is also the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), with the Boko Haram sect.

The spokesperson for the organisation, Chief Femi Fani kayode, stated this at the maiden press briefing of the organisation in Abuja on Wednesday.


But he said that because of the alleged anger shown by the APC when the sect was proscribed by the Federal Government, the APC might be in support of the group.

“But the APC has spoken against the proscription of the Boko Haram and if they take over, they might lift the ban on the sect.”

He said the Federal Government could not arraign people on the issue of Boko Haram without sufficient evidence to prosecute such persons.

Fani-Kayode also said the allegation against former Borno State Governor Ali Modu-Sheriff as sponsor of Boko Haram remained unproven because there had been no evidence to prove he was culpable.

He said, “This government is not in the habit of arraigning people when there is no hard evidence; it does not convict people on the pages of newspapers.

“You don’t convict people based on what the opposition is telling you. You convict people on the basis of evidence and the court convicts people, not government. If you have issues about that ask the court.”

He dismissed the call by the opposition for the prosecution of Modu-Sherrif without evidence, wondering why they did not make the same call when the ex-governor was with the APC.

The former governor was a member of the APC before he defected to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party few months ago.

On Buhari’s candidacy, Fani-Kayode said that the February 14 presidential election would be a battle for the very soul and destiny of Nigeria, insisting that the former head of state was not a match for Jonathan.

He said, “We believe that it is a struggle between light and darkness. We believe that Buhari represents the darkness and that President Jonathan represents the light.

“We believe that Buhari represents a return to an ugly past, which is best forgotten while President Jonathan represents our hope for a greater and better future.”

He said that the APC represented everything “that is unholy and unwholesome in our society and that the PDP represents all that is decent and good.”

Fani-Kayode said that the the “change” campaign of Buhari represented nothing but a change from good to evil, adding that there was no way a positive change would come from a man like Buhari whose democratic credentials, he said, remained questionable.

The former Minister of Aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo said that most people did not remember the atrocities Buhari allegedly committed when he was in power, but said his committee would document them and remind Nigerians about them.

He said, “Most people have chosen to ignore the number of things that General Buhari has said and the number of things that he has done over the last few months and years that have brought carnage, division and strife in our society and that prove that he is not the sort of person that can be trusted with power.