Atiku Attacks Buhari For Saying 90% Of Boko Haram Victims Are Muslims

Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly “rationalizing” Boko Haram killings by saying 90% of all those killed in the past by the insurgents are Muslims.

President Buhari had made the claim in an opinion piece he published in “Christianity Today” on the recent killing of the Adamawa Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Lawan Andimi, by Boko Haram insurgents.

The president’s article titled “Pastor Andimi’s Faith Should Inspire All Nigerians” was obviously stirred by the controversy that trailed Andimi’s murder, where CAN accused the Buhari administration of “colluding” with the terrorists to persecute and exterminate Christians in the country.

Buhari, in the article, said, “it is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims,” Buhari said.

“They include a copycat abduction of over 100 Muslim schoolgirls, along with their single Christian classmate, shootings inside mosques; and the murder of two prominent imams.

“It is a simple fact that these now-failing terrorists have targeted the vulnerable, the religious, the non-religious, the young, and the old without discrimination,” the President stressed.

But reacting via his verified Twitter page on Wednesday, Atiku, who ran against Buhari in the 2019 presidential election, rebuked the president for putting a percentage to the religion that has been killed more by the insurgents.

“We mustn’t rationalise killings. Whether Christian, Muslim, Traditionalist, or Atheist, the killing of any human being, by Boko Haram, or any misguided group, is wrong & should be condemned unequivocally. There is no compulsion in religion. Only love,” the former vice president said.