Buhari and Northern Nigeria -By Safiyanu Muhammad Ibrahim

I sympathize with all innocent Nigerians that continue to pay expensive price of insecurity all over the country. I am highly sad and pathetic on what is happening in Northern Nigeria.it becomes a place where no one is innocent. Children, women, as well as youth can be killed at any time.

Before Muhammadu Buhari emaged as Nigeria’s President, Northeastern part of Nigeria became the place of all terrorism work, were hundreds of people where massacred every day.

Boko Haram insurgency has disturbed almost five states of Northeast region under the the leadership of Abubakar Shekau. Is as powerful as Adolf Hitler in terms of army and they where fully armed.

Abubakar Shekau became the Boko Haram leader, after the attack of Muhammad Yusuf by Nigerian police during the tenure of late President Umaru Musa Yar’adu in 2009. The battle began in Bauchi and later spread in to Maiduguri and wudil and later to other states in Northeast.

According to security officials, the 2009 Boko Haram rebellion was a conflict between Boko Haram which is called militants Islamic group,and Nigerian security forces, ferocity across several states in northeastern Nigeria resulted in more than 1,000 dead, with around 700 killed in the city of Maiduguri.

The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adu did not agreed and keep up seeing Boko Haram activities in the Northeast where he said ” I want to emphasize that this is not an inter-riligeous crisis and is not the Taliban group that attacked the security agencies first,no. It was as a result of a security information gathered on their intention to launch a major attack,”.

After late Yar’adu took action agains Muhammad Yusuf, he thought it was the end of Boko Haram but bitterly when both the two counterparts passed away the leadership of Abubakar Shekau became from bad to worse were he spread his activities called jihad to many local governments in Borno state and other neighbouring states in northeastern part of Nigeria such as Yobe,Adamawa, Gombe and Bauchi state.

The Boko Haram activities include bomb blast, highways attack attack in the market, schools and worship centres which include mosques and churches. Were Chibok girls are parked from school by Shekau. In 2014 the activities of Boko Haram militants reached some part of North western Nigeria the blasted bomb in the mosque at kano were hundreds of people dead and many were injured.

Similarly the attack also reached some part of north-central, the bomb blast in terminus market in Jos plateau state, where hundreds of people are born to ashes and so many are injured. All this things happened in the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan.

People of Northern Nigeria are always in scared and prayers for change maybe if President Muhammadu Buhari emerge the winner in 2015 general election, insecurity will come to an end because of his integrity and experience about security.

In 2015 general Muhammadu Buhari said “he is not financially strong to afford the Presidential contestant candidate form where he argued the masses to contribute for his campaign activities.

People works tirelessly and contribute money for Buhari’s campaign. Just because they are hoping Buhari will end insecurity in Nigeria.
After miraculously Buhari won the 2015 Presidential general election. People of Northern Nigeria especially Hausa fulani, have make a kind of wonderful celebration that has never happened in the history of Nigeria.

People come out in hundreds thousands to show their concern on what they have voted for. To there impressions all insecurity challenges will become a story, But after President Muhammadu Buhari come in to power, the issue of insecurity become the order of the day.

To my believe Buhari will overcome all insurgency in northern Nigeria, but he further loomed us into the abyss of poverty and insecurity where the activities of kidnappers and Bandits become worse in North- western Nigeria across several states like Kaduna, Katsina,Zamfara and Sokoto.

The sad reality is the northerners are those in helm of affairs, they are the masters of the states security ,they are the musketeers from north to west, political power to northern Nigeria is doing more harm than good.

Safiyanu Muhammad Ibrahim writes from
Mass communication Department,
Abubakar Tatari Ali polytechnic, Bauchi.