All of these were damning for the then President and the Nation’s Armed Forces too were accused of even aiding the Terrorists, simply because the people were greatly traumatized.

For a government that has swallowed more than it can digest, last week’s extra portion from Bill Gates and TY Danjuma worsened its constipation.

A retired military officer, Colonel Samaila Dabai, Thursday, urged his former boss, General T. Y. Danjuma (retd) to withdraw his recent statement in which he accused the Army of colluding with terrorists.

Is it true that General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, popularly known as TY from the North has dropped a bombshell that Nigerian military and police are complicit in killings across Nigeria, especially in the North and he therefore asked citizens to defend themselves or they would all die?

And so whether TY Danjuma was ‘rash’ or cheaply ‘advantageous’ when he made those incendiary remarks instigating the people to mutiny rather than inviting them to parley, will depend on what side of the divide one is

“I am not a politician and politics is one profession I don’t want to belong to because if I am a politician, I will not say what I am going to say to you now.

Danjuma may have spoken the mind of many. But his words must be seen as a wake-up call to the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rise up to its responsibility to Nigerians

CONVENER, Niger Delta Self-Determination Movement, NDSDM, Ann-Kio Briggs, has applauded former Minister for Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd) on his call on Nigerians to “rise and defend themselves.”

International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, yesterday described as belated but containing weighty, irrefutable facts and therefore must be paid attention to by Christians, the call by a former army chief and Defense Minister in Nigeria, retired Lt Gen Theophilus Danjuma to all Nigerians particularly members of Christian faith in the Northeast, North-Central and Southern parts of the country to defend themselves against the ongoing widespread massacres across the country.

—Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, founder of Progressive Alliance Movement, PAM, and son of Nigeria’s first Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, has urged the military not to play politics with fragile peace being experienced in Nigeria, noting that General Theophilus Danjuma is not a man that talks for talking sake.

Without the missionaries, the history of northern Nigeria would be pathetic and the region would still be in the dark ages. We in Southern Kaduna are proud of our Christian heritage. We will live by it, die for it if need be, but we are going nowhere. We are free citizens and not in bondage to anyone or institution

A Middle belt based civil society group, Middle Belt Conscience Guard has urged the federal government as well as international community to hold former Defence Minister, TY Danjuma responsible should the region descend into chaos.

Defence Minister, Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali has said that the call by elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General TY Danjuma (rtd), to the people of Taraba state to take up arms and defend themselves in the face of Fulani herdsmen killings, is an invitation to anarchy.

Nigerian military has on Sunday classified the statement credited to a former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, as an unfortunate statement coming out from a highly distinguished statesman especially now the military has embarked on demilitarization of the North Central Region of the Country.

The former Minister for Defence, General Theophirus Danjuma has called on Nigerians to rise and defend themselves against ethnic cleansing.