Jude Tabai of the Peace Advocacy and Security Network believes that the incessant killings and bombings in Nigeria are all about the struggles for supremacy in the 2015 general elections.
Speaking on Channels Television, he said that the way people were being killed on daily basis could not have been normal for a country that once experienced relative peace.
He recalled the Niger-Delta militancy which he claimed to have played a major role in its resolution. He cited the manner in which many Nigerians stood up to “say the truth” against their criminality and this, he said, has been missing in the case of the recent insurgency in the country.
He described the circumstances surrounding the Niger-Delta militancy with reference to the bombing of Abuja in 2010. He revealed that people were being paid to execute the insurgency as it was not possible for the youths to speak against one of their own in the Presidency.
Although it was suggested that it might be morally right to “speak against one of their own” if they were saying the truth, Mr Tabai – who said that he was the king of youths in the region – maintained that he knew more about the issues and on the recent worrisome trend of the killings, “Everything about Nigeria today is being politicized”, he said.
Tabai, who is from Bayelsa State, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, ran the risk of being seen as biased but he debunked the insinuation claiming that he had made many sacrifices for the country. He also said that he was one of the few who stood up to speak against the Niger-Delta militancy and enforced Amnesty.
On the Chibok schoolgirls, Mr Tabai said that only the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, could say if schoolgirls were truly missing or not.
Maintaining his earlier stance that the insurgency was being sponsored in order to promote an agenda towards the 2015 elections, Mr Tabai noted that it was unfortunate that people “want to project an agenda from the backdoor” by killing innocent Nigerians.
