… accuses Buhari of instigating violence after 2011 presidential poll
. Alleges mercenaries brought from neighbouring to perpetrate wanton killings
2023 Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, says the desperation to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 resulted in the current insecurity ravaging the country.
Datti Baba-Ahmed said this on Tuesday while featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.
He alleged that mercenaries were into Nigeria from various countries to cause chaos and perpetrate the violence and killings that occurred during the 2011 post-election violence after was declared the winner of the presidential election.
Baba-Ahmed noted how a statement by the late former president Muhammadu Buhari instigated and fueled the violence and wanton killings that followed the declaration of the results of the 2011 presidential election won by Jonathan.
According to him, “I contested with the late former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2011. But ever since he made a security threat comment, I refused to go out with him.
“It didn’t matter if I lost the Senate seat, but I won it eventually. Buhari said, you [will all be] soaked in blood. Kaduna is my state. There was serious violence in Kaduna. Many houses were burnt.
“They went and brought people from neighbouring countries in readiness to remove Jonathan.”
