Premium Times reports it has a video where President Goodluck Jonathan said the former Borno Governor, Ali Modu sheriff is the key sponsor of the Boko Haram Sect.
Read their report below (plus video and its full translation)...
About two weeks after Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service [SSS], cleared a former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, of any link to the extremist Boko Haram sect, PREMIUM TIMES has obtained a video suggesting that President Goodluck Jonathan is personally aware and strongly convinced of the former’s governor’s longstanding relationship with the founder of the sect.
In the video clip, shot in April 2013 during a visit he made to Borno state, Mr. Jonathan was heard describing Mr. Sheriff, who was then a member of the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] as a “friend” of Mohammed Yusuf, the man who founded and led Boko Haram for years.
Mr. Yusuf died while in the custody of the Nigeria Police after he
and a number of his followers were arrested following a bloody clash
between the sect members and law enforcement.
During his visit to Borno that April 2013 to persuade Borno leaders
and residents to accept a heightened military presence in the state
until the insurgency is checked, Mr. Jonathan suggested that Boko Haram
evolved, blossomed and took up arms against the Nigerian state during
Mr. Sheriff’s reign as governor of the troubled North-East state.,
As commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President
Jonathan regularly has access to a multiplicity of security reports, and
many believed he spoke from a position of knowledge at the time.
The video features the president, dressed in agbada and a cap, and
clutching two microphones in his left hand while he addressed his
audience, trying to defend the militarization of Borno and other states
in the northeast region.
In his speech, Mr. Jonathan argued that the militarization of the
region began after the crises that trailed the murder of the Boko Haram
founder.
For a moment, the president could not remember the name of the slain Boko Haram leader and he called on the audience for help.
“Ehn ehn, what is the name of ehn ehn Governor Sheriff’s friend?” the president asked.
The audience clapped and laughed. Some echoed Yusuf!
“When Yusuf was killed, that was the beginning of the crisis…” the president continued his speech.
Mr. Yusuf was the founder of the Boko Haram sect. His extrajudicial
murder in 2009 marked the beginning of the deadly insurgency that is now
threatening the entire northeast region of Nigeria.
See full transcript of video below:
… Bunkers in Maiduguri or Borno state. Why should the bunkers come? who wants to send bunkers to borno state.There are too many APCs (armored personnel carriers). Why should there be apcs in borno state? Who wants to send apcs to borno state? We are talking about soldiers. There are some people even JTF should go, who wants to spend money paying allowances of soldiers for Godsake. We need money for development. If the circumstances that brought the soldiers are no longer there, that day, they will all leave. [Audience clap clap clap] They were not in Borno state in 2001, 2002, 2003, up to 2009. Probably that is when ehnn this man was killed, and that was the beginning of crises. Ehn ehn, what is the name of ehn ehn governor Sheriff’s friend? [Audience clapped, laughed and echoed Yusuf]. When Yusuf was killed, that was the beginning of the crisis…
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