Nigerian Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has asked Northeast people to thank President Muhammadu Buhari who when came into power eventually liberated the region from the clutches of Boko Haram insurgents.
Speaking at the APC Presidential Campaign Rally which was attended by the President in Bauchi on Monday, Senate President said: “Mr President, the PDP abandoned the northeast to Boko Haram, to insurgency”.
Lawan took a swipe again at the opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) alleging that while the Party was in power, it abandoned the people in the northeast to Boko Haram insurgency.
According to him, “PDP abandoned us until you came into office. In 2015, when you were sworn in, your first task was to liberate us. Thank you very much that you did.
“Mr President, we in the northeast are probably the most beneficiaries of your administration. Infact, we were the first to start enjoy your administration more than any other part of Nigeria because BoKo Haram technically defeated immediately you came into office and you appointed our son Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai and of course Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff.
“They did so well that your govt gave the security that we are enjoying today. The northeast, from 2015 particularly, enjoyed the most important appointments in your administration.
That is to say that you are a northeasterner. This crowd is a testimony. Everywhere you go is Buhari, in the northeast”, he added.
The Senate President who had make similar accusation about two weeks ago at a campaign rally in Yobe when he blasted PDP to have allowed Boko Haram insurgency to fester while it was in power.
He criticised PDP to have denied the existence of Boko Haram and allowed the insurgency to blossom instead of doing the needful and curb the menace.
