A former Vice President of
Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has provided reasons he would not be reacting to the
statement credited to a former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, asking
President Muhammadu Buhari not to run in the 2019 presidential election.
The former military Head of State
had yesterday asked Nigerians to vote President Muhammadu Buhari out of office
next year. He, however, enjoined Nigerians to cooperate with Buhari until his
tenure ends.
In the lengthy statement, IBB
listed the rate of killing and blood-letting in the country by the Fulani
herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents in different parts among his reasons for
making the call.
He had said, “I get perplexed by
their gory themes. From Southern Kaduna to Taraba state, from Benue state to
Rivers, from Edo state to Zamfara, it has been a theatre of blood with cake of
crimson.
“In Dansadau in Zamfara state
recently, North-West of Nigeria, over 200 souls were wasted for no justifiable
reason. The pogrom in Benue state has left me wondering if truly this is the same
country some of us fought to keep together.
“I am alarmed by the amount of
blood-letting across the land. Nigeria is now being described as a land where
blood flows like river, where tears have refused to dry up. Almost on a daily
basis, we are both mourning and grieving, and often times left helpless by the
sophistication of crimes.
“The Boko Haram challenge has
remained unabated even though there has been commendable effort by government
to maximally downgrade them.”
However, another statement followed
few hours, claiming that the former Head of State never made such statement.
The second statement had insisted
that the spokesperson to IBB, Kassim Afegbua released the statement on his own.
But asked to react on IBB’s call
for President Buhari not to run in the election, Atiku’s spokesperson, Paul
Ibe, said,” There are controversies surrounding the statement.
“Which one do we react to? A
first statement came and another one followed immediately, countering it. It
shows there is confusion.
“We’ll wait until everything
falls in place then we can react accordingly.”
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