Boko Haram, insecurity: Obasanjo, Ahmadu Ali created them – Senator Rowland Owie

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate and a founding member of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie has slammed the
ex-National Chairman of the party, Dr. AhmadiAli, alleging that his
tenure created the present security challenge in the country where
members of the Boko Haram havekilled many and property destroyed.
Senator Owie who was replying to Ahmadu who had during the week
castigated the Goodluck Jonathan led government as a failure, stressed
that Ali as PDP National Chairman and former President Olusegun
Obasanjo as President of the country created all these problems,
adding that the present administration inherited them.
Senator Ali spoke on Tuesday at the Celebration of former Vice
President Alex Ekwueme at 80 and at an International Colloquium
organised in his honour at the Thisday Dome, Abuja. The former PDP
National Chairman had said, ''This idea of six zones was an artificial
creation by late Sanni Abacha to find a way of ruling the country and
those crying about marginalization are just being smart. Those really
marginalized are the West. The clamour for restructuring of the six
zones is not relevant and amending the constitution is not the issue,
but good governance."
Senator Owie in a text message to Vanguard said, ''I was amused when I
read the comments credited to Col. Amadu Ali, that if government was
up and doing, that there would have been no cases of massacre in Mubi
etc. How could Col. Ali say that when the problems today both in
government and our party the PDP were created by the Obasanjo
government that forcedCol. Ali on the PDP as national Chairman.
''All the ideals of the founding fathers of PDP were rubbished totally
during the tenure Ali as National Chairman of PDP. How can the smoke
call the kettle black? The major part of the problems of Nigeria today
and that of PDP as a party, were sowed in the 8yrs of Obasanjo
government and the period of Col. Ahmadu Ali's headship of PDP.
''These problems are inherited in governance of Nigeria by President
Jonathan and Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as Chairman of PDP. Was it not
during Ahmadu Alitenure as Chairman of PDP that party nominations in
the PDP became who you know? Party primaries were being teleguided
from Wadata plaza! His tenure as PDP chairman was a disaster."
SOURCE: Vanguard