Buhari To PDP: Prove My Link To Boko Haram Or We Meet In Court

Former head of state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retract its accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorist acts and tender an unreserved public apology to him or face legal action.

In a statement personally signed by Buhari in Kaduna yesterday, he said, ‘’I cannot sit back and allow my image, and that of my political party be smeared by falsehood in the name of politics.
‘’The widely publicised and very serious allegations made against me by the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, to the effect that my utterances were responsible for the current state of insecurity and terrorism bedevilling Nigeria, were absolutely without basis.

‘’To support his claim, Mr Metuh engaged in twisted logic and outright distortion – which he called facts – in which he said that I, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, beckoned on my ‘supporters to go on lynching spree’ should I lose the 2011 presidential election, as a result of which ‘an unprecedented violence broke out claiming the lives of hundreds of innocent people.

‘’I take very serious exception to this grave accusation against me by the PDP publicity secretary. It is a false allegation aimed at tarnishing my image and reputation in the hope of destroying my political and electoral standings, and that of my party, the APC, in the country.

‘’Firstly, it is public knowledge that Boko Haram as a terror organisation long preceded the 2011 presidential elections. My utterances or lack of them on the 2011 presidential election could not therefore have created nor sustained the Boko Haram insurgency.

‘’Secondly, the PDP government of President Goodluck Jonathan constituted the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu Panel of Inquiry to investigate and report on the post-election violence in some parts of the country. The panel discharged its duties within its terms of reference and submitted its report to the president.

- Leadership

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