Garba Shehu to Jonathan: Boko Haram didn’t nominate Buhari as mediator

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja

Loyalists of erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari, person faulted the assertion by erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan that the Boko Haram terrorists nominated Buhari to correspond them successful their negotiations with the past government.

Spokesman of the precocious President Buhari’s loyalists and erstwhile media adjutant to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, told Jonathan to look for different communicative to archer Nigerians.

Shehu successful a connection connected Friday nighttime debunked Jonathan’s claim, pointing retired that successful 2014, Buhari escaped a weaponry onslaught connected his beingness by Boko Haram successful Kaduna, successful which his idiosyncratic unit suffered assorted degrees of injury.

The connection read: “We are compelled to marque a effect to a unspeakable connection made connected the precocious president Muhammadu Buhari by his predecessor successful office, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to the effect that Boko Haram had nominated him to correspond them successful a dialog with government.

“If this is  a run connection towards his bid for the presidency successful 2027, we want  to accidental to him that “Mr. Jonathan, you are making a mendacious start.”

“Muhammed Yusuf oregon Abubakar Shekau, the deceased leaders of the Boko Haram violent group, ne'er nominated Muhammadu Buhari for immoderate specified role. In fact, Shekau routinely denounced and threatened Buhari, and their ideologies were successful nonstop opposition.

“In 2014, Muhammadu Buhari escaped a weaponry onslaught connected his beingness by Boko Haram successful Kaduna, successful which his idiosyncratic unit suffered assorted degrees of injury.”

According to the statement, Buhari’s campaigns focused connected warring Boko Haram and restoring information to Nigeria whenever helium became president, putting him successful nonstop absorption to the violent group’s leader.

It said contrary to the quality making the rounds successful those years that the extremist Islamist extremist –Boko Haram had  nominated General Muhammadu Buhari arsenic the mediator betwixt them and the Federal Government of Nigeria successful the projected bid talk, the retired Military General denied cognition of his nomination.

“In a connection issued by the past National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Engr Buba Galadima, Buhari, the nationalist person of the CPC said helium not alert of the appointment:

“As astatine 10pm yesterday (Thursday) erstwhile I spoke with him, helium said helium has not adjacent heard astir it,” Galadima said.

Continuing, the enactment caput told reporters that “he (Buhari) said the full happening to him, is conscionable speculation. And since cipher has contacted him arsenic a idiosyncratic for him to adjacent cognize who is down what, and what the motives of the full workout are, helium would not talk to the press.”

The connection further said: “He revealed that Buhari, the 2011 statesmanlike campaigner of the CPC, further told him that arsenic an elder statesman and a patriotic Nigerian, helium volition proceed to commune until bid and tranquillity instrumentality to Nigeria.

“What led to the misleading accusation was that a faction of the violent group, perchance sponsored by Buhari’s opponents, staged a property league successful Maiduguri, Borno State, done a definite Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz, who claimed to beryllium the Boko Haram commandant successful complaint of Southern and Northern Borno, saying that the sect would similar the erstwhile subject leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, ex-Yobe State politician and the past Senator, present precocious Bukar Abba Ibrahim, archetypal Nigerian Minister of Petroleum, Shettima Ali Monguno, besides late, Chairman of the Presidential Committee connected Insecurity successful the North-East, Ambassador Gaji Gatimari, and different salient members of the Borno Emirate to mediate betwixt them and the national government.

“Abdulaziz was roundly condemned by the leaders of Boko Haram who claimed that helium had “no mandate of their leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau.”

Speaking connected to the contented , the past CPC nationalist publicity secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashekun, present late, lambasted President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for latching connected Buhari’s alleged information for governmental rea...