The 2023 Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has attributed the insecurity plaguing Nigeria today to the intense political efforts to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
Baba-Ahmed made the remarks on Tuesday during an appearance on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.
“I contested with the late former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2011. But ever since he made a security threat comment, I refused to go out with him. It didn’t matter if I lost the Senate seat, but I won it eventually,” he said.
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Baba-Ahmed recalled Buhari’s warning at the time: “Buhari said, you [will all be] soaked in blood. Kaduna is my state. There was serious violence in Kaduna. Many houses were burnt.”
He further alleged, “They went and brought people from neighbouring countries in readiness to remove Jonathan.”
Madagascar Receives Skulls of King and Warriors Taken by France 128 Years Ago
Madagascar has held a solemn ceremony to mark the return of three ancestral skulls taken to France over a century ago, including one believed to belong to King Toera of the Sakalava people, who was executed by French forces in 1897.
The remains were officially handed over by France in Paris on August 27, the first repatriation under a 2023 law designed to ease the return of human remains seized during colonial times.
