A former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has said that he does not have a hand in the challenges confronting the administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Babangida said in view of this he finds it difficult to understand the position of a former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, that he (Babangida) and some other Northern elders should be held liable for the menace of Boko Haram.
Babangida, in a statement on Sunday by his media aide, Kassim Afegbua, thus described the statement by Clark as senseless and misguided, adding: “Instead of buck-passing and playing the blame game, we expect Edwin Clark to advise the government of the day to do more of consultation with former presidents, opinion moulders and leaders of thoughts across the country with the aim of getting lasting and integrated solutions to our problems.”
The statement reads in part: “The statement reportedly credited to Chief Edwin Clark on Friday, 3rd August, 2012 in several newspapers and online media to the effect that General IBB has a hand in Boko Haram, is the subject of this response. We are ashamed to state here that rather than coming up with plausible and efficacious solution(s) to the insecurity in the country, what the self-acclaimed elder statesman came up with was buck-passing, such odium and rancid outburst, to the extent of trying to accuse General Ibrahim Babangida on the Boko Haram menace. We view this misguided and senseless statement in very bad taste and we take very strong exceptions to his drooling and implied conclusion.”
SOURCE: 5 August 2012.
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