THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ahmed Mu’azu, has reacted to the verbal attack on his person by the Borno State government over the circumstances leading to the abduction of over 200 girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, by Boko Haram insurgents.
The Secretary to the Borno State Government, Ambassador Baba Ahmed, had reportedly described the PDP chairman as “a pathological liar” for telling Nigerians that both the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, and the West African Examination Council (WAEC) had written to the governor not to allow examinations to take place in Chibok, which the governor refused to heed.
In a statement by Mr. Akin Oyegoke, the Special Adviser on Information and Communications Technology to the PDP chairman, Mu’azu said he would not trade words with the state government, as he was more concerned about the development of the country and how to win the fight against terror.
According to him, what Nigerians need now, irrespective of party affiliation, is to close rank so as to curtail the activities of the Boko Haram sect.
The statement read: “The attention of the office of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, has been drawn to a press interview by the Secretary to the State Government of Borno State, Ambassador Baba Ahmed.
“(The) interview posted in one of the online portals, Sahara Reporters, on Thursday 29th May 2014 in which Ambassador Baba Ahmed denied the letter of advice from the Federal Ministry of Education advising the government of Borno State and other states in the region because of security situation not to conduct WAEC or NECO examinations outside of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, is a clear acceptance of the lopsided approach by the government in Borno State to fight insurgency in the area.
“The National Chairman of the PDP ordinarily will not like to join issues with any Nigerian, especially not with Ambassador Baba Ahmed; but as an elder statesman and a stakeholder in this administration, we wish to state again that for us to win the fight against terror in Nigeria, we must all close ranks irrespective of party affiliations and heed all popular advice from any agency of government to curtail the activities of the Boko Haram sect.
“We wish to state again that other states in the region which adhered to this advice from WAEC and the Federal Ministry of Education were able to conduct WAEC/NECO in their capitals peacefully.
“We owe our people the collective duty to protect and provide for them and we wish to once again advice the government and stakeholders in Borno State and, indeed, all Nigerians to cooperate with government at all levels to stop this spate of violence.”
The PDP chair noted that while he respects the office of the Secretary to the State Government and the person of Ambassador Baba Ahmed, “as a highly respectable Nigerian who has served the state and the country meritoriously, we wish again to advice Baba Ahmed to put his tenses together when addressing a public figure and the person and office of Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu, a former Governor of Bauchi State and the chairman of the largest party in Africa.”
The statement further said: “Adamu Mu’azu is definitely not a pathological liar as referred to by Baba Ahmed; rather, he is a man highly revered by his people; a man of integrity, a refined politician and a gentleman.”
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