Goodluck Jonathan Never Took Boko Haram Issue Serious – Obasanjo Reveals

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again revealed how former president Goodluck Jonathan was son paranoid about dreaded terrorist group Boko Haram being created to distract his government.In an interview with BBC in Lagos, Obasanjo noted that former President Goodluck Jonathan did not take the insurgency seriously..

He said,

“I went out in 2011 to Maiduguri. I took great risk to find out what is really happening. Boko Haram, do they have grievances, if they have grievances, what are their grievances and I brought all that to Jonathan.Jonathan didn’t believe that Boko Haram was a serious issue. He thought that it was a device by the North to prevent him from continuing as president of Nigeria which was rather unfortunate.”“Even when Chibok girls were abducted, it took a while for the government to believe. Now if that is the situation, you can understand why the right attention was not paid to the issue of Boko Haram when it should have been paid.”