Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has claimed that his boss and ex Nigeria’s President, resolved the problem of terrorism by Boko Haram in weeks.
Atiku said while addressing stakeholders from Kogi in Abuja on Wednesday.
He stated that the victory against terrorism during his tenure as Vice president was due to political will.
You remember when the Boko Haram started in Yobe? It was actually in 2002. We were in office. The president sent for me. VP, what do we do about this?’ Then I said, Mr President, let’s call the Service Chiefs and give them a deadline. If they can’t put it down, then they should put down their uniform and go away. We will get some other people. And he called the Service Chiefs, I was there, and gave them marching orders, and within a few weeks, they put down the insurgency in Yobe. It never came up again until we left office, Atiku said.
He also attributed the groups resurgence to other leader’s inability to take action.
So, I will say there’s a lack of political will on the leaders. When they’re killing your citizens, how can you even eat? They’re killing your citizens and you don’t give a damn; that is the greatest irresponsibility by any political leader, anywhereSo I hold our leadership responsible for all the insecurity that is going on all over the place, he added.
