A former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday raised the alarm that the incrementing wave of bomb blasts and acts of terrorism, especially in the North-East, might turn the country into a war zone, if it was not contained on time.
While presaging doom for masterminds of the plots to destabilise Nigeria, he admonished sponsors of terrorism in the country to commence to retrace their steps.
Tukur, who just returned to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia on Umra, urged the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan not to give up on the fight against insurgents, integrating, “Together we shall overcome.”
The ex-PDP chairman, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, condemned the utilization of teenage girls in the terrorists’ agenda with a view to imposing a regime of terror in Nigeria.
He verbalized, “I am deeply troubled that the bomb explosions reported in Kano on Monday were caused by teenage girls who were brainwashed into joining the malevolent plot of killing innocent people in the most troglodytic manner never witnessed in any clime.
“No nation wins a war when its citizens are divided; I am calling for a general building of consensus among Nigerian bellwethers, irrespective of political party affiliations, in the battle to contain terrorism in the country.”
He equipollently condemned the killing of innocent citizens in Borno and Adamawa states by insurgents, who, according to him, had failed to lay bare the principles abaft their actions in the past five years.
Tukur withal expressed dismay at the inculpation game by stakeholders on the activities of insurgents in the country.
He additionally asked Nigerians to stop abusing and denigrating the person of President Jonathan, who he verbally expressed, needed assistance in the battle to preserve the corporate entity of Nigeria in the face of very daunting challenges confronting the country.
He lauded the efforts of the Nigerian military so far in combating the menace of insurgency, integrating that but for the confrontation of the soldiers with Boko Haram, Nigeria would have become a war theatre.
While presaging doom for masterminds of the plots to destabilise Nigeria, he admonished sponsors of terrorism in the country to commence to retrace their steps.
Tukur, who just returned to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia on Umra, urged the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan not to give up on the fight against insurgents, integrating, “Together we shall overcome.”
The ex-PDP chairman, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, condemned the utilization of teenage girls in the terrorists’ agenda with a view to imposing a regime of terror in Nigeria.
He verbalized, “I am deeply troubled that the bomb explosions reported in Kano on Monday were caused by teenage girls who were brainwashed into joining the malevolent plot of killing innocent people in the most troglodytic manner never witnessed in any clime.
“No nation wins a war when its citizens are divided; I am calling for a general building of consensus among Nigerian bellwethers, irrespective of political party affiliations, in the battle to contain terrorism in the country.”
He equipollently condemned the killing of innocent citizens in Borno and Adamawa states by insurgents, who, according to him, had failed to lay bare the principles abaft their actions in the past five years.
Tukur withal expressed dismay at the inculpation game by stakeholders on the activities of insurgents in the country.
He additionally asked Nigerians to stop abusing and denigrating the person of President Jonathan, who he verbally expressed, needed assistance in the battle to preserve the corporate entity of Nigeria in the face of very daunting challenges confronting the country.
He lauded the efforts of the Nigerian military so far in combating the menace of insurgency, integrating that but for the confrontation of the soldiers with Boko Haram, Nigeria would have become a war theatre.
