Balarabe Musa blames Boko Haram Surge on FG
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that the Boko Haram sect may not be conquered soon as it is a political problem.
Musa, who was speaking in an interview, claimed that the government created the sect in order to shift Nigerians’ attention away from the government’s failure.
He said: “Some of us believe that Boko Haram is not a religious problem. It is more of a political problem. Boko Haram is a problem created by the government deliberately to destabilise Nigeria and divert the attention of the people from the failures of the government.
“With Nigeria destabilised, starting from the North, when the 2015 elections come, the level of insecurity will be so much that Nigerians will not be concerned with the elections. Instead, they’ll be concerned primarily with peace. That will make election rigging easy.
“It is (lack of) money that undermines the freedom of the people to choose the right person. They can shun the money used for elections and politics, generally; it is not impossible, in spite of the poverty in the country and the manipulations by the elite.”