Ex-Minister Dalung Counters Garba Shehu, Says Boko Haram Nominated Buhari As Negotiator

A erstwhile Minister of Sport successful the furniture of the precocious President Muhammadu Buhari, Barr. Solomon Dalung, has countered the ex-spokesman to the erstwhile President, Garba Shehu, saying the deceased governmental person was really nominated arsenic a negotiator by the violent radical Boko Haram successful 2012 earlier helium became elected President of Nigeria successful 2015.

LEADERSHIP recalls that astatine a publication motorboat connected Boko Haram insurgency past week successful Abuja, erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan had lamented his inability to curtail the violent group, reminiscing however it erstwhile nominated the past retired General Muhammadu Buhari arsenic a typical astatine government-planned dialog table.

But, reacting swiftly to the statement, a erstwhile media adjutant to the precocious erstwhile President Buhari, Garba Shehu, countered and berated Jonathan for the statement, saying Buhari’s predecessor was lone playing soiled authorities successful anticipation for his planned instrumentality to bureau done 2027 elections. He said Buhari was ne'er nominated for specified a relation by terrorists and that helium was not adjacent alert of the offer.

However, Dalung, who was a governmental state of the precocious Buhari and served arsenic Sport Minister successful his furniture from 2015 to 2019, reacted to the debacle via a Facebook station connected Tuesday, saying the terrorists really nominated Buhari to talk for them but that helium rejected the offer.

He said the humanities notation by erstwhile President Jonathan was close but unnecessary and meant to people a governmental point, recalling that helium was nominated alongside precocious Buhari and precocious Kebbi-born Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Gerei Argungu by the Boko Haram.

The erstwhile Minister wrote: “I owed it a covenant to talk the information astir the legacies of my precocious brag and leader, President Muhammadu Buhari. When helium invited maine to articulation his governmental journey, helium said—and I quote, “I cognize you don’t spare anyone erstwhile it comes to speaking your mind; delight don’t spare maine whenever I err.” I person kept this committedness passim his lifetime, and I mean to uphold it adjacent aft his passing. Speaking truthfully astir his enactment is some a work and an grant I beryllium to our shared history.

“The ongoing contention regarding the alleged information of the precocious President Muhammadu Buhari by Boko Haram, arsenic raised by erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan astatine a publication motorboat successful Abuja, is unnecessary and politically motivated. However, for the record, I tin corroborate that sometime successful 2012, the past spokesperson of Boko Haram, Habu Kaka, made an announcement connected Radio Deutsche Welle Hausa Session, Germany, naming General Muhammadu Buhari, Barrister Solomon Dalung, and Sheikh Abubakar Gerei Argungu arsenic nominees for bid negotiations with the Federal Government.

“General Muhammadu Buhari instantly issued a nationalist connection rejecting the nomination. Therefore, what erstwhile President Jonathan referred to was so a humanities event, though resurrected present with governmental undertones. It is important for posterity that facts are distinguished from politics, and past from propaganda.”