CONDEMNATIONS and commendations have continued to trail the visit of
former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to the family of the slain
Boko Haram leader, Yusuf Mohammed.
Obasanjo’s visit and intervention to resolve the crisis was commended
by many, while other Nigerians faulted it, querying the motive behind
the visit.
Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, a former special adviser on National Assembly
Matters to former president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, said Obasanjo should
be commended for the visit, though it should not have been publicised.
Speaking with the Nigeria Tribune in Kano, on Sunday, Yakasai said
the step taken by the former president was in the right direction.
Also, the Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC), on Sunday, condemned the killing
of the Boko Haram leader, saying that it portended danger for the
corporate existence of the country.
The umbrella body of the Ijaw youths, through its spokesperson,
Jeremiah Owoupele, said “this development is sad and raises question on
our regard for the sanctity of human life.”
Also, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) said its implication was simply the continuation of the crisis.
Its chairman, Lagos State chapter, Kola Ajayi, as stated in Wikileaks
report, northern cabal might want to implicate Obasanjo for trying to
do what they ought to have done.
In a sermon on Sunday, the vice-presidential candidate of the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, declared
peace in the troubled areas of the northern part of the country.
Also, the chairman of Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Mr Mashood
Erubami, described the visit of Obasanjo to Maiduguri, on purported
mediatory role as “shadow chasing.”
Erubami faulted the decision of Obasanjo to assume mediatory role in
resolving the Boko Haram epispode, adding that he lacked moral ground to
negotiate, while descri-bing the visit as a “smokescreen.”
Source: Tribune Newspaper
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