Barely a week after the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi, accused the PDP of fuelling the rise of Boko Haram due to its politics of exclusiveness, former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has also fingered the excesses of the party as the reason the activities of the sect was rising.
Speaking at an event to mark the 50th birth anniversary of the chairman/publisher of Leadership Newspaper Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, yesterday, Fani-Kayode advised the party to go back to the drawing board with a view to bringing together all aggrieved members of the party, both past and present, for reconciliation.
He said, “If you look at the comments of the NSA a few days ago, and for me I think that is the most explosive comment that has been made in the last couple of years. I think we really need to sit down and think about the things that are happening in this country.
“Let me repeat for the purpose of clarification. He said that the reason why Boko Haram has not been contained and the causes for Boko Haram can be traced to the PDP and the politics of exclusion that the PDP has played in the northern part of Nigeria since the time of the convention. These are very serious words and I believe and I may be wrong but I believe that they are more than true.
“There is only one thing left for this PDP government to do, if it wishes to survive and that is; reach out to those alienated not only within the PDP but outside the PDP too.
“The fact remains; the excesses of our party, the PDP, are part of the problem we have in this country today. The insensitivity of some of our party leaders is part of the problems we have today”.
While charging Nigerians to hold the government to live up to its responsibilities, he noted, “Not enough people are putting this government on its toes. Not enough people are being sensitive to the fact that blood is flowing everyday in this country. A situation whereby every day, we hear of people dying and people are being killed and nothing is being done about it... I believe the only way to stop this carnage is for us to sit down and think twice as a country”.
SOURCE: 
2 May 2012.
2 May 2012.
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