By FESTUS AHON
UGHELLI—NATIONAL Coordinator of Forum for Justice and Human Rights Defence, FJHD, Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, has said that ‘Boko Haram,’ like other militant groups in the country, was a creation of government corruption, inequality, under development and injustice since independence.

Ikimi,  in a statement, weekend, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to rise above sentiments and offer the country purposeful leadership, which he said the country currently lacked.

He said: “The current rift between President Jonathan and General Mohammadu Buhari over the latter’s prediction of bloodshed in the event that the 2015 general elections are rigged, is not strange, as the above fact is already known to most Nigerians.

“To be candid, I believe that General Buhari was merely stating the obvious and I concur with him, as it is glaring that most Nigerians want free, fair and credible elections come 2015 and I will not be surprised if bloody street fights emerge in the event that the said elections are shammed as most Nigerians are tired of fraudulent elections in our polity.

“I am not oblivious of the fact that the Lemu Panel set up by President Jonathan to look into the remote causes of the civil disturbances that pervaded the North after the 2011 general elections exonerated General Buhari and Nigerians are demanding a publication of the government white paper on the recommendations of the said panel. I am only stating my opinion on the subject as I am not holding any brief for any politician or political party as all the political parties nationwide including the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lack political ideology.”