A former senior Special Assistant
to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has said that herdsmen killings
going on in various parts of the country, are enough to send President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, out of office in 2019.
According to him, that was
exactly how the APC used Boko Haram activities as a propaganda to see off the
President Jonathan’s administration.
Okupe said he is not a fan of
President Buhari and does not wish him and the APC well, adding that its not in
his interest to help them out of the situation.
He wrote on Facebook, “In his
administration, adding n the last few days i have sat back to reflect on the
perplexing matter of the so called Fulani Herdsmen attacks nationwide.
“As an opposition politician it
is a veritable political tool that if craftily manipulated and orchestrated in
a sustained manner, is enough to send this Government packing in 2019.
“Just like Lai Mohammed and his
team of propagandist hanged the Jonathan administration employing the Boko
Haram insurgency and the dubious chibok girls affairs.
“I am not a fan of President
Buhari and i certainly do not wish the APC well. So it is not in my interest to
assist either to get out of an insolvable and potentially dangerous political
quagmire.
“But this is our country and our
fatherland. It must not always be an irresponsible and desperate struggle for
power all the time at the expense of national cohesion and survival.
Something, to my mind just does
not add up on this Fulani herdsmen attacks.
“Classically it has become
ubiquitous. It comes up randomly anywhere and everywhere. Benue, Taraba,
adamawa, plataeu,kaduna, zamfara, enugu, anambra, Edo , Ogun, ekiti, kwara etc.
“The style is as confounding as
the viciousness that is typical of the orgy of these attacks.
A strange accompanying phenomenon
is the associated arson of farmlands and houses.
“The questions are: if the
struggle is about feeding cattle, why burn farms and houses thereafter? How
come this pattern is consistent everywhere. is there a script or operational
guideline?
“The government itself initially
believed this acts were committed by the fulani herdsmen in their attempt to
secure the lives of their herds. Obviously the government sympathized wrongly
with the herdsmen and this was responsible for poor official response to the
attacks.
“However, the DSS, in their early
brief to government, included a vital information ignored by virtually all of
us due to the overwhelming emotion brought about by the numbers of people
butchered and the dastard nature of the attacks. The preconceived notion of the
bias of the administration in favour of the fulanis did not help matters.
“The DSS had suggested the
infiltration of the country by agents and converts of the terrorist group ISIS.
“In my opinion the operative
signature and character profile of the terrorists, we had named fulami herdsmen
, fits no other group in the world but the ISIS.
“Typically the attacks are
mindless, brutally vicious with no clear cut defined or obvious benefit to the
attackers!!!.
“It is a fact that towards the
twight light of the operative effectiveness of the Boko Haram insurgents, this
new group ISIS, had emerged as a separate clearly defined entity within the
Boko Haram Camp. As the number and strength of the Boko Haram became severely
degraded, the ISIS components have centralized and adopted a more diffuse
operational strategy, which is what the nation is currently witnessing.
“I also believe government has
finally come to terms with this unfortunate reality, but in order not to create
national panic have kept this to themselves. Hence the various military
operations announced by the army covering the entire nation.
“While i appreciate the efforts
of government not wanting to create panic, in this type of situation citizens
watch and vigilance is extremely important.
“It is better we are well
informed and multiple local based channels of communications be quickly
established to assist the security agencies.
“It is my belief that this facts
be made known to the public so as to douse the ethnic tensions and ill feelings
pervading the polity presently.
“Personally we are in a state of
national apprehension and this is not the fault of any government. Government
need to open up and shed the image of entrenched nepotism if we must all fight
this together in a non partisan manner.
“By the Grace of the ominipotent
God, any group or groups that rises against Nigeria and its citizens shall fail
and be destroyed in the mighty name of JESUS.”
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