Ibrahim Babangida, a former Military Head of State, has listed reasons
President Muhammadu Buhari should not bother returning to power in
2019. The former Head of State highlighted the rate of killing and blood
letting in the country by the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents
in different parts.
IBB said this in a lengthy statement he made public on Sunday.
He said, “In the past few months also, I have taken time to reflect
on a number of issues plaguing the country. I get frightened by their
dimensions. I get worried by their colourations.
“I get perplexed by their gory themes. From Southern Kaduna to Taraba
state, from Benue state to Rivers, from Edo state to Zamfara, it has
been a theatre of blood with cake of crimson.
“In Dansadau in Zamfara state recently, North-West of Nigeria, over
200 souls were wasted for no justifiable reason. The pogrom in Benue
state has left me wondering if truly this is the same country some of us
fought to keep together.
“I am alarmed by the amount of blood-letting across the land. Nigeria
is now being described as a land where blood flows like river, where
tears have refused to dry up. Almost on a daily basis, we are both
mourning and grieving, and often times left helpless by the
sophistication of crimes.
“The Boko Haram challenge has remained unabated even though there has
been commendable effort by government to maximally downgrade them.