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| Former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) |
Presidential
candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011
Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on
the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent
civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week,
on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and
their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the
Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government
Buhari, who also blamed President
Goodluck Jonathan for failing to tackle the security problems in the
country, argued that the challenges started in the Niger Delta.
He said, “What is responsible for the security situation in the country is caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants.
“Every Nigerian that is familiar with
happenings knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What
happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta at that time wanted to
win their elections, so they recruited youths and gave guns and bullets
to them to use against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections, they asked the
boys to return the guns, and the boys refused to do so. Because of that
the allowance that was being given to them by the governors was
stopped.”
Buhari said his joining the proposed All
Progressives Congress was not all about securing the party presidential
ticket for the 2015 elections.
According to him, the formation of the
APC and his joining the group is to help effect the needed change in the
polity and not just about his presidential ambition.
He declared, “If APC fails to give me
the ticket, I will remain in partisan politics and in the party. Anyone
the party picks as its candidate, I will support him because I will
remain in the APC.”
Besides, Buhari noted that the problem of the country was that of bad leadership, which the APC was out to change.
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