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IPOB: Ex-Sokoto Governor Warns FG Against Use Of Force On Biafra Agitators

Former Sokoto Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa

Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto State, has ​reacted to the agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

​He warned against use of force against the agitators and advised government to dialogue with the group.

​”​When Obasanjo was in power, he had the challenge of Sharia in the North but when he found out that Sani Yerima was the mover, all advice was given to Obasanjo to deal ruthlessly with Yerima but Obasanjo turned down that advice and invited Yerima as his son and he was able to manage that crisis​”, he told Vanguard.​

​”​After he left, Yar’Adua came and the Niger-Delta militants were all over the place. He too invited their leaders and he sat down with them at the Villa and they discussed the way forward. Now Buhari has come with his own, he needs to apply the same measures other leaders used to quench the fire.

​”Dialogue is the best way out of the IPOB crises. As a democrat, you must do things in a democratic manner because we are no more in a military era.​”​

Bafa​rawa, however, said the PDP will throw APC out of power if the party goes into the 2019 general elections together.

He said Nigerians were tired of the Buhari government and that the 2018 bufget will be the last the administration will present.

​”I must say that those who reposed hope and trust in this government are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Maybe because I do not have any hope in this government and because I knew there was not going to be any change, I am not surprised about what is happening.

​”​So whatever has happened, I am not moved because I did not vote for APC, so I do not have any hope in the APC government. It is those who put their hope in APC that are heart-broken right now.

“There could not be hope when you brought people you were not sure of and asked them to join those who were doing things rightly. It is like mixing a dirty mud water with clean water. So, there is no difference between APC and PDP because the same people who killed the PDP moved in again to join the APC.

​”​So that is where the problems started, if they allowed the original members of the APC to continue without bringing the PDP to join us then, APC would not have derailed.

​”​The current government is finished. Why do I say so? The budget they are going to present for 2018 is the last budget they are going to present before they will leave. In the 2017 budget, they have not done anything. Nigerians can testify to the fact that they have not seen or felt any dividend of democracy from this government.

​”​So, when they present their next budget, nothing much should be expected because any serious government should have performed in the first two years of its administration and the third year is for finishing the projects while the fourth year will be for campaigns.

​”​This is the third year of this government and we have not seen anything they have done or any completed project. As far as I am concerned, this government has not done anything they will use to campaign to Nigerians.​”

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46 Comments

46 Comments

  1. Uc Chukwu

    October 8, 2017 at 9:03 pm

    They hv alread useing force so ur advice is late so keep it 4 ur self oky?.

  2. Solo KC

    October 8, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Bafarawa i knew one on one u are a gentle man from a wicked region

  3. Chinedu Solomon

    October 8, 2017 at 5:28 pm

    okay!

  4. Mhiz Favour Amara

    October 8, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    Good one sir

  5. Leleh Damian

    October 8, 2017 at 11:44 am

    all people have the right of self determination. yes someone should tell buhari that he can never stop Biafra.

  6. Jerom Chisom Paul

    October 8, 2017 at 11:26 am

    LUKE 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye. 43 For a good tree bringeth* not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

  7. Akaku Samuel

    October 8, 2017 at 10:05 am

    Is it the one he has already use,all what are u,taking about,

  8. Auwalu Kibiya Bala

    October 8, 2017 at 6:31 am

    shashasha mai tsagen banza mai yasa baka hana yan ipob yanka yan uwanka yan arewaba ayankinsu shashasha banza sakarai bayahude wawaa

  9. Solomon Chukwuemeka

    October 8, 2017 at 6:27 am

    BIAFRA ALL THE WAY.

  10. Paul Godfrey

    October 8, 2017 at 5:08 am

  11. Ben Dike

    October 8, 2017 at 5:04 am

    How did monkey pox get to bayelsa, was there time free medical test was carried in that region, did bayelsa trade on monkeys? Asking been disturbing me..

  12. Obinna Raphael

    October 7, 2017 at 11:08 pm

    Medicine after death. Biafra I’d here already.

  13. Emmanuel Iwuchuchukwu

    October 7, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    U can’t calm us we want referendum

  14. Ike Asonye

    October 7, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    We congratulate them for handing us our freedom on a platter of Gold .

  15. Mike Napo

    October 7, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    On Biafra freedom we stand

  16. Julie Ogbu Ebuenyi

    October 7, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    All of you are the same. We don’t need your sympathy.

  17. Nze Emmanuel Amadi

    October 7, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    Too late bro

  18. Cee Cee Ibezym

    October 7, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    The North and APC are very proud of buhari as being a stubborn man,but I assure them of one thing , that they must surely fall apart

  19. Ernest Jombo

    October 7, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    God bless u sir

  20. Patience Opara

    October 7, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    Thank you sir and may God bless you

  21. Emmanuel Azubuike Biafra

    October 7, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    Tell them

  22. Noble Henry Kings

    October 7, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    Is too late to apologies

  23. Onyedikachi Eno

    October 7, 2017 at 6:57 pm

    They have already used it but let’s watch if they will suceed at the end

  24. Nwaeze James Tennyson

    October 7, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    Ur opinion ain’t needed

  25. Oyenka Ugbo

    October 7, 2017 at 6:13 pm

    tell them zoo

  26. Ifeanyichukwu Madunagu Frank

    October 7, 2017 at 6:05 pm

    let fg continue killing unarmed biafrans youths but that will not stop biafra restoration now

  27. Aminu Ibrahim

    October 7, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    He is one of the Sponsors of IPOB.

  28. Michael Amaliri

    October 7, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Medicine after death

  29. Banjamin Ifeanyi

    October 7, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    They have really done the worst by applying it already so what ever you are saying is medicine after death.

  30. Andybest Bush

    October 7, 2017 at 4:12 pm

    No leave him seems he believe that Igbos are her worst enemy we will see were is going to end

  31. Onyemaechi Tony

    October 7, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    May almighty GOD bless you for speaking out.
    Keep on & don’t fear.

  32. Muhammad Jazuli Suraj

    October 7, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    . Go and hide you’re ugly face before you talk

  33. Kayode Niyi

    October 7, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    Has he returned #2b money for spiritual collected from Jonathan reelection

  34. Justice Aneru

    October 7, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    Politics..

  35. Abdulaziz Mohammed

    October 7, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    The nigerian army used only one ANIMAL from the ZOO called python, not force

  36. Okwuchukwu Okah

    October 7, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    No matter wot there re still good pple in every tribe

  37. Shijja'uddeen Yahaya Sfn

    October 7, 2017 at 3:09 pm

    Why???

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    October 7, 2017 at 3:06 pm

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  39. Adedapo Adebisi Adejuwon Barcelona

    October 7, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    Hmmmmm! He get mission for 2019

  40. Okeson Onu

    October 7, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    Tomorrow now he will Denie that did say so.

  41. Ekanu Raphael

    October 7, 2017 at 3:05 pm

    the truth must come,u are wellcome

  42. Eva Best

    October 7, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    Ok

  43. Kingsley Istanbul Vam

    October 7, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    In all we say referendum loading

  44. Christopher Ochini

    October 7, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Correct

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