The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar should blame his party for allowing the insurgency to thrive in Nigeria.
Atiku in a town hall meeting expressed dismay over the increasing rate of insurgency in the country since 2009.
He said he could not understand the phenomenon of the Boko Haram terrorists and wondered why they continued to operate.
Reacting to this statement on Tuesday, Lai Mohammed said the question should have been directed at the PDP “under whose watch the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009 and festered”.
The minister said six years before 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), assumed office, “the PDP more or less nurtured the insurgents to the monster they later became.
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“Alhaji Atiku should ask his party why it allowed Boko Haram to operate freely, bombing cities, motor parks, schools, and other soft targets unrestrained.
“Alhaji Atiku, who was then residing in Abuna before porting bro his new abode in Dubai, should ask his party, the PDP, why it allowed Boko Haram to bomb the police headquarters, the UN complex, a shopping mall and motor parks in Abuja with so much ease,” he said.
The information minister also stated the terrorists had been cleared from most of their strongholds.
“The former Vice-President may want to know that both kinetic and non-kinetic activities employed by the military have seen the terrorists surrendering in droves, thereby freeing large spaces for normal socio-economic life to resume,” he said.
