Boko Haram: Fayose Begs APC To Produce Abubakar Shekau

Ekiti State Governor, Mr
Ayodele Fayose has accused
the leadership of the All
Progressives Congress, (APC)
of knowing those behind the
Boko
Haram insurgency.
Rather than wiping out
sentiment, Fayose urged APC to
produce Ibrahim Shekau, the
original leader of Boko Haram.
The APC’s Presidential
Campaign Organisation had
said the Federal Government
was planning to use a fake
Ibrahim Shekau to implicate
the party’s presidential
candidate, Major General
Mohammadu Buhari (rtd)
But in a statement issued in
Ado Ekiti Tuesday by his
Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose
lamented the open display of
hatred against Nigeria and its
people by the APC.
Fayose, therefore, charged the
APC to produce the original
Shekau, since the party knew
that the Federal Government
was presenting a fake one,
saying; “It is obvious that APC
does not want the insurgency to
end.”
“Up till today, the APC has not
made any statement,
commending our gallant
soldiers that are laying down
their lives to save Nigerians
from the Boko Haram
insurgents.
”Instead of commending the
soldiers and encouraging them,
what the APC people are doing
is to blackmail the military and
one wonders why a party will
want to take over power by
supporting killing of innocent
Nigerians.”
Speaking further, Fayose said;
“With the onslaught on the
Boko Haram by our gallant
soldiers, the APC appears to
have lost the game of using the
insurgency to campaign against
President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Instead of them to face this
reality, they have come up with
this criminal assertion that a
fake leader of Boko Haram,
Ibrahim Shekau, was being
presented before Nigerians by
the government, in order to
claim winning the war on
terrorism.
“They are also claiming the
fake Shekau might become a
tool to blackmail members of
the opposition, by coaching the
phantom terror chief to say he
was working for its presidential
candidate, Major-General
Muhammadu Buhari, in order
to link him to terrorism.
“With this statement coming
from the APC, it is clear that
the party knows what we don’t
know about Boko Haram.
“It also indicates that the APC
people do not want the Boko
Haram insurgency to end so
that they can continue to make
political gains from it.
“Therefore, APC should simply
produce the original Shekau
that they know because you
can only recognise fake when
you know the original”.