Abubakar Kawu Baraje, a key figure in the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2021 linked Nigeria’s persistent insecurity to the importation of foreign Fulani terrorists from neighbouring countries for the 2015 general elections.
Speaking during the activities marking his 70th birthday anniversary in Ilorin, Kwara State, Baraje stated that the fighters were brought in from countries including Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Niger, and Chad to help secure victory for the APC in the 2015 polls.
“After the election, the Fulani have refused to leave. I and other like minds wrote and warned those we started APC with that this was going to happen but nobody listened,” he explained.
He also backed self-help initiatives of the south west governors, stating that responses of Sunday Igboho to the herdsman menace were necessary because the Federal Government failed in its principal responsibility to secure life and property.
“We have a confession that the media has not given appropriate attention. Kawu Baraje was a leading Chieftain of the APC & he has confessed that they imported the foreign machineries who have become bandits. How much more evidence do you need? Why is the media not following up?”
According to the former PDP chairman, who also once served as the party’s national secretary, chairman of the breakaway faction of PDP that formed the nucleus of the current ruling party, the Fulani men causing havoc in the country are not aboriginal to Nigeria.
“We are not asking the right question on how the same Fulani we have been leaving with suddenly turned out a menace.
“We also must ask how they had access to their guns,” the ex-party chairman asked.
Baraje stated the Fulani men wreaking havoc in the country.
“The security agencies have not been open about the nature of the problem.
“They have made arrests. Why haven’t they told the public who the terrorists are,” asked Baraje.
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