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“Failures And Shameless Elders”: Junaid Mohammed Blasts IBB, Abdulsalami, As Confusion Hits 2015 PDP Agenda
Posted: April 25, 2012 - 19:13
Former Nigerian military dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
By SaharaReporters, New York
Confusion and division has hit the ranks of the Northern Nigerian elite as the jostling begins in earnest for the 2015 presidential election and the restoration of confidence in a region that has been left completely exposed by the Boko Haram insurgency, ethno-religious crises, and underdevelopment.
A leader of one of the contending groups, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, took to the airwaves this morning to blast such former leaders as General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, characterizing them as “failures and shameless elders” who have brought disaster to the people of the north, and the country.
Junaid spoke on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, and the programme was translated exclusively for SaharaReporters by a foreign university which offers Hausa as an academic course here in the United States.
The angry younger politician warned the older war-horses that their era was over and that God will hold them responsible for the atrocities and disunity they brought to the people of the region.
Below is the full transcript of the interview:
“This emerging group (Ibrahim Babangida and the likes of Abdulasalami Abubakar) are peddling (themselves) as elders of the north. Don’t put us in the same category. It was the same set of failed elders that brought General Olusegun Obasanjo as a big disaster to the people of the north and Nigeria. Because they imposed disaster and devastation to us.
“They are only jittery of the wind of change that we are now championing, feeling they are super powers of the past and present, and no one in their thinking is up to the task except them. So what they want is if their interests cannot be protected, [they will poison] the water and everyone will lose.
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