A former governor of Jigawa
State, Sule Lamido, has advised a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, not to
allow his disappointment with the current administration to turn him to a
religious and ethnic bigot.
He called on the former president
to withdraw the statement credited to him that Boko Haram has an agenda of
‘Fulanization and Islamization’ of West Africa.
Lamido, a political ally of Obasanjo, stated this in a press statement on Sunday, through his media aide,
Mansur Ahmad.
The former president was quoted at
the Cathedral Church of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Oleh in Isoko South Local
Government Area of Delta State as saying “the twin evils of Boko Haram and
marauding cattle herders were initially treated with kid gloves.
“Its no longer an issue of lack
of education and lack of employment for our youth in Nigeria which it began as,
it is now West African Fulanization, Islamization and global organised crimes
of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun trafficking,
illegal mining and regime change.”
Lamido, however, said he
believes Obasanjo’s statement was improper for a nationalist.
He said such a statement should not
have come from the former president.
“If it were said at a non-religious
venue to a non-religious audience may be; it might have been more tolerable.
“Please sir, don’t let your
disappointment with sitting presidents turn you into a bigot. You must not
abandon the national stage.
“The cracks along the various
divides in our National cohesion are already turning into huge gorges,” Lamido said.
Lamido and Obasanjo are fierce
critics of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Both men have criticized
President Muhammadu Buhari for his handling of the economy and security
situation of the country.
The Boko Haram terrorism in
Northern Nigeria has caused tens of thousands of deaths since 2009. The terror
group has since spread its operations to neighboring West African countries
including Niger and Cameroon.
A faction of the group, known as
ISWAP, is also believed to have links with the Islamic State, the global terror
group that once controlled a large part of Iraq.
You see a Fulani man, although he is a very close friend of OBJ, but when it comes to his tribemen, he is going against OBJ, that means these Fulani men have hidden agenda.
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