By Emmanuel Nduka
The secret behind the victory of the current Nigerian Government in the 2015 election may have been fully unravelled, after Abubakar Kawu Baraje, a former chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday traced the origin of the current insecurity in the country to the influx of Fulani from neighboring Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Niger and Chad during the polls.
The militias he said, were imported into the country for election purposes in 2015 to help facilitate victory.
Baraje who made this damning revelation in Ilorin, Kwara State as part of activities to mark his 70th birthday anniversary, also backed self-help initiatives of the South West governors, stating that responses of Sunday Igboho to the herdsmen menace were necessary, because the Federal Government failed in its principal responsibility to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians.
On moves by some of the APC governors to woo former President Goodluck Jonathan, Baraje said the ruling party was only wasting its time.
Baraje, who once served as the party’s National Secretary and Chairman of the breakaway faction of PDP, said the Fulani men causing havoc in the country are not natives of Nigeria.
“We are not asking the right question on how the same Fulani we have been living with suddenly turned out a menace.
“We also must ask how they had access to their guns,” the ex-party chairman asked.
“The security agencies have not been open about the nature of the problem.
“They have made arrests. Why haven’t they told the public who the terrorists are?.
“After the election, the Fulani have refused to leave. I and other like minds wrote and warned those we started APC with that this was going to happen but nobody listened,” he explained.
Nigeria is currently facing the worse insecurity problem in its history, with no part of the country relatively safe. Majority of attacks carried out by armed groups have been linked with the Fulani extraction.
