The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari,
has said the claim by the Boko Haram
sect that it is a religious group is a fraud.
He also said the sect would be denied a
recruitment base the moment people in
local communities realised that its claim
of being a
religious group was nothing
but a fraud.
Buhari said this while receiving a
delegation from Nasarawa State which
was led by the state Governor, Tanko Al-
Makura, at the Defence House, on
Monday.
In a statement signed by the Director of
the APC Presidential Campaign Council,
Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari was quoted
as saying, “The fraud called Boko Haram
can be defeated by denying it a
recruitment base.
“No religion allows for the killing of
children in school dormitory, in markets
and places of worship. They have
nothing to do with religion. They are
terrorists and we are going to deal with
them as they deal with terrorists
anywhere.”
The President-elect also said he was
greatly pained by the destruction of
schools in the north-eastern part of the
country.
This, he noted, could deny thousands of
children access to education and a better
future unless something was done
urgently to avert “this tragedy.”
“The worst thing anybody can do is to
deny children access to education. That
will be destructive to their lives and we
are not going to allow that to happen,”
the President-elect said.
He also said that his government would
help the states to get more money to
improve infrastructure by ensuring that
all federally-collectible revenues were
paid directly into the Federation Account
and each tier of government given its
due share.
Buhari was also quoted as saying, “As at
now, the government does not even
know how many revenue accounts it has.
We will give all the tiers of government
what is due to them but we will hold
them accountable as we would the
Federal Government.”
Buhari while describing Nasarawa State
as his own “political laboratory,” meaning
the only CPC-controlled state out of the
36 others. He adjudged the experiment as
a success.
He said, “From one state, I now have 22
political laboratories.”
He commended Al-Makura for surviving
many impeachment plots saying,
“Without Nasarawa, there would not have
been the APC.”
Earlier, Al-Makura had said he led the
delegation to congratulate Buhari on his
victory which was not only a victory for
him but a victory for Nigerians.
