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We brought Buhari into politics to stop OPC dismantling Fulani in Ilorin – Buba Galadima
@Source: nigerianeye.com
A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba
Galadima, has explained how some northern group recruited late President
Muhammadu Buhari into Nigerian politics.
The NNPP chieftain disclosed this on Tuesday while fielding
questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme.
Galadima specifically stated that the late Buhari was
brought into politics because the Oduduwa Peoples Congress (OPC), between 1999
and 2000, invaded Ilorin with the sole aim of uprooting what it called Fulani
structures.
The NNPP chieftain said his northern group felt that was too
much, adding that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and then Lagos State
Governor, Bola Tinubu, were doing nothing.
Galadima said: “Some of us who recruited Buhari had a
mission. And I will reveal that mission today.
“General Buhari came into politics. It was not his province.
He never liked the politicians because he believed we are fake and that we do
not mean what we say.
“But there was an incident that made some of us recruit him,
convince him, and use other people to convince him to join politics, even
though we had our own agenda.
“In 1999 and 2000, the OPC was on a rampage in some parts of
the country, especially the South West, and had inconvenienced a lot of people
from this part of the country to the extent that they mobilized over 500 vehicles
to come and invade Ilorin with the sole aim of uprooting what they called
Fulani structures in Ilorin.
“We felt that was too much, and President Obasanjo was doing
nothing. President Bola Tinubu, then Governor of Lagos, was doing nothing. And
some of us felt that those groups of people were being encouraged by their
leaders in positions of authority. So how do we stop that?
“I called a meeting in Kaduna, about 34 of us, and we sat
down to reason. How do we save our people from this OPC menace?
“I suggested that we have to, because you remove government
through only two ways. The barrel of the gun and through the ballot box. And
they said it was impossible to challenge General Obasanjo. That was how Buhari
came to our mind.
“And when he was approached, he had very unkind words for
politicians. But since he did not say he was not doing it, we still persuaded
“To cut a long story short, we achieved our first purpose of
putting a brake on what the OPC was doing. Immediately Buhari joined partisan
politics, we had a very big outing to initiate him into politics. The Obasanjo
government became restive and was shaken to its bone marrow. Obasanjo had to
really checkmate the OPC.
“So, for that reason, we achieved our first purpose of
bringing General Buhari into partisan politics. The remaining now is history.”
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