By Efemena Agadama

The recent revelation by the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoeye Azazi, that the Boko Haram ongoing onslaught against innocent Nigerians is a result of the undemocratic nature of the PDP is a long awaited revelation from a courageous officer, and a brother of Goodluck from the same region.

Last year, Azazi and the security chiefs also accused the Judiciary of playing games with the lives of Nigerians by quickly granting bail to arrested Boko Haram members.  The government, PDP, and some godfathers from the North, have been frustrating the efforts of the security agencies by either conniving or sympathising with the Boko Haram sect.

Azazi’s recent revelation only demonstrates that he has once again spoken the minds of all his fellow security chiefs who have been battling with the activities of the sect. Nigerians should be glad that Azazi is not from the North, else people would have accused him of playing a hidden agenda. Rather, this is coming from Jonathan’s trusted brother who has worked so hard to rescue his administration from the throes of the Boko Haram onslaught.

Azazi has just collaborated what Wole Soyinka once said of PDP – a nest of killers – vampires. The Boko Haram menace has complicity from the government especially some aggrieved politicians from the North. Therefore, they should stop hiding under the name of Islam and Al Qaeda in the lands of the Islamic Maghreb.

Associating Boko Haram with Al Qaeda is just a trick to create fear and uncertainty in the patriotic hearts of Nigerians; a miscalculated attempt to subdue Nigerians through deliberate and repressive misinformation. The truth is that Boko Haram is a political weapon to settle scores within the PDP.

Goodluck should listen and adhere to Azazi’s advice because, Azazi is not a child in security and intelligence matters.  He rose through the ranks meritoriously, not through coups, and deserved to be heard and respected.  Azazi has been in the intelligence arm of the Nigerian Army for over thirty years, holding major command duties and the Director of Military Intelligence in 2003.  So he has enough knowledge of what he has said.

He receives intelligence information from the Joint Task Force (JTF), comprising of the three services and the Police, hence, there is no greater honour than for Goodluck to look inwards into the PDP and eradicate the Boko Haram onslaught from the North before it spreads further.

Those from the North should stand against the Boko Haram murderous acts and their sponsors.  Nigerians are saying no to the divide and rule tactics.  Nigerians are saying no to the religious and ethnic cards being played from all sides.  Nigerians want honesty on the Boko Haram issue not honest misinformation.
Efemena Agadama, a UK -based activist wrote in from London.