Baba-Ahmed Accuses El-Rufai, APC Of Fueling Insecurity For Political Gains

The 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has made allegations linking the emergence of coercion and insecurity successful Nigeria to governmental desperation by cardinal figures wrong the All Progressives Congress (APC) up of the 2015 wide election.

He specifically fingered erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, whom helium accused of hypocrisy and complicity.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s existent affairs programme ‘Politics Today’ connected Tuesday night, Baba-Ahmed claimed that the precocious Libyan person Muammar Gaddafi’s associates had attempted to enlistee militants crossed Africa to support his authorities earlier his death, and that parts of that web aboriginal contributed to Nigeria’s information situation during the President Goodluck Jonathan regime.

“The information is that idiosyncratic had gone to North Africa negotiating with Gaddafi. Gaddafi was an planetary terrorist,” Baba-Ahmed alleged. “He said, ‘I volition assistance you similar I person been doing. I heard that determination are plans to termination Gaddafi done an uprising. If it fails and you go president, I volition discontinue to your country.’ Right now, helium wanted to make a buffer, truthful helium sent Saif al-Islam to Niger with millions of dollars successful his footwear to enlistee terrorists to spell and combat successful Libya. He sent his erstwhile wide to Mali portion helium inactive had information there.”

According to him, a information of Gaddafi’s resources recovered their mode into Nigeria done intermediaries allegedly tasked with recruiting fighters to assistance the Libyan regime.

“In Nigeria, they gave brainsick amounts of wealth to a young man, ‘go and assistance these people’ with the volition of bringing them to combat successful Libya,” helium said. “When Gaddafi died, they sat connected the money. They kept him with the recurrent until mentioning the sanction and past they stopped sending the money. Now, each these things are linked—they wanted Nigeria to pain if Buhari did not go president successful 2015.”

Baba-Ahmed, who said helium contested for the Senate erstwhile the precocious General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) contested for the presidency successful 2011, accused the erstwhile president and his allies of inflaming tensions with incendiary rhetoric during that period.

“I contested alongside Buhari for Senate successful 2011, you person it connected YouTube. He said, ‘soaked successful blood, the baboon and the dog.’ Ever since helium made that comment, I refused to run for Buhari. It didn’t substance if I mislaid the Senate seat, I won it eventually,” helium stated.

The legislator blamed the 2011 post-election unit successful Kaduna State and different parts of bluish Nigeria connected governmental manipulation and outer recruitment of fighters from neighbouring countries.

“For a erstwhile president to accidental ‘soaked successful blood’… Kaduna is my state. There was superior unit there; galore houses were burnt simply due to the fact that of that statement. They went to bring radical from neighbouring countries successful readiness to region Jonathan from bureau by each means,” helium claimed. “So the desperation to get Jonathan retired of powerfulness caused insecurity successful Nigeria.”

He further revealed that his family’s acquisition with bandits during a kidnapping incidental past twelvemonth corroborated his suspicions astir the origins and motivations down existent insecurity.

“Last twelvemonth astir this time, we were negotiating the merchandise of our nephew, and erstwhile helium came out, what helium said was nary antithetic from what Nasir El-Rufai is saying,” Baba-Ahmed disclosed. “They are not making overmuch wealth relying connected handouts from the government; instead, they spell retired to run and inquire for money.”

“My grudge with Nasir’s connection is that helium was portion and parcel of APC from 2013, helium was 1 of the architects of it all,” helium said. “All of a sudden, to travel and absolve himself and telephone others out, no. Nasir is portion and parcel of each that has been going on. We suffered; we are victims of Nasir’s misrule successful Zaria.”

Baba-Ahmed besides revisited the December 2015 Zaria massacre, successful which hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement successful Nigeria (IMN) were killed during a confrontation with the Nigerian Army. He alleged the lawsuit was deliberately orchestrated to suppress momentum against the government.

“Go backmost to December 2015, erstwhile a warfare was expected to person been won successful the North-East—what concern does a subject main person to travel to Zaria for a convocation, not NDA graduation of recruits?” helium asked. “They chose to travel the way wherever the Shi’ites were holding. All these things were orchestrated. They knew the nonstop hour, the nonstop infinitesimal that helium was coming to walk due to the fact that they had the technology. About 800 radical were killed due to the fact that they wanted to code down the tempo that was gathering up. These thing...