Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has reacted to the claim by the
All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation that the
Federal Government was planning to use a fake Ibrahim Shekau to
implicate the party’s presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu
Buhari (retd).
According to. New statement by him, he challenged APC to reveal the real Shekau since they know the original.
“up till today, the APC has not made any statement, commending our
gallant soldiers that are laying down their lives to save Nigerians from
the Boko Haram insurgents,” saying, “instead of commending the soldiers
and encouraging them, what the APC are doing is to blackmail the
military and one wonders why a party will want to take over power by
supporting killing of innocent Nigerians.”“With the onslaught on the Boko Haram by our gallant soldiers, the APC appears to have lost the game of using the insurgency to campaign against President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Instead of them to face this reality, they have come up with this
criminal assertion that a fake leader of Boko Haram, Ibrahim Shekau, was
being presented before Nigerians by the government, in order to claim
winning the war on terrorism.
“They are also claiming the fake Shekau might become a tool to blackmail
members of the opposition, by coaching the phantom terror chief to say
he was working for its presidential candidate, Buhari,, in order to
link him to terrorism.
“With this statement coming from the APC, it is clear that the party
knows what we don’t know about Boko Haram. It also indicates that the
APC people do not want the Boko Haram insurgency to end so that they can
continue to make political gains from it.” “APC should, therefore,
simply produce the original Shekau that they know because you can only
recognise fake when you know the original.”
Ayo Fayose orders APC to Produce the real Shekau
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