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Publisher (J.T)
May 21, 2019
TheFederal Government has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s commentsimputing ethno-religious motive to Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West AfricaProvince, as deeply offensive and patently divisive, saying such indiscreetcomments are far below the status of an elder statesman.
Ina statement issued today in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, LaiMohammed said it was particularly tragic that a man who fought to keep Nigeriaone is the same one seeking to exploit the country’s fault lines to divide itin the twilight of his life.
Hesaid Boko Haram and ISWAP are terrorist organisations pure and simple, addingthat they care little about ethnicity or religion when perpetrating theirsenseless killings and destruction.
Hesaid President Buhari put to rest the mis-characterization of Boko Haram as anIslamic organisation when he said, in his inaugural speech in 2015, that ”BokoHaram is a mindless, godless group who are as far away from Islam as one canthink of”.