Mr. Lai Mohammed who is Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture has asserted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) groomed Boko Haram into the monster it became by the time President Muhammadu Buhari took over from them in 2015.
Mohammed made this assertion while responding to a comment credited to the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Africa Today News, New York had earlier reported that Atiku had said the federal government’s failure to defeat the insurgent group puzzles him.
Reacting at the 11th edition of the scorecard series of Buhari’s administration on Tuesday, Mohammed said Atiku should ask PDP why it allowed Boko Haram insurgents to bomb the United Nations complex and police headquarters in Abuja.
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‘For six years until 2015, when our administration assumed office and inherited Boko Haram, the PDP more or less nurtured the insurgents to the monster they later became.
‘Alhaji Atiku, who was then residing in Abuja before porting to his new abode in Dubai, should ask his party, the PDP, while it allowed Boko Haram to bomb the police headquarters, the UN complex, a shopping mall and motor parks in Abuja with so much ease,’ Mohammed said.
Meanwhile, Atiku over the weekend revealed that he has held meetings on five separate occasions with his rival, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to resolve the lingering crisis within the party without any solutions.
Atiku stated this on Sunday night during a live discussion on People’s Townhall, a brainchild of Channels Television and its partners.
Asked why he was yet to resolve the month-long imbroglio, Atiku said, ‘I have met Wike two times in Port Harcourt, two times in Abuja, one time in London, personally.’
‘It is not on my part; it is on the other side; I am waiting for him,’ he said, without revealing the kernel of his discussions with the Rivers governor.
Atiku was on the programme alongside his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.