Boko Haram is Armed Wing of APC - Fani-Kayode Alleges

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday alleged that the Boko Haram Islamic sect is the armed wing of the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC).
Fani-Kayode, who spoke as a guest on Channels Television programme, 'Sunrise Daily', also accused the APC leadership of being supportive of the sect's actions, saying such actions suit their purpose of discrediting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government.
Asked about the identity of Boko Haram supporters, Fani-Kayode said "there were some people in this country that believe that it suits their purpose for Boko Haram to kill people in order to discredit the government, destabilise the country and bring the government down".
He also pointed fingers at members of the opposition, arguing that some of them have sympathies for the Boko Haram insurgents.
Defending his claims, he referred to statements credited to members of the opposition, concerning the possible outbreak of violence if the Presidency did not return to the North in 2015.
"Look at the comments of somebody like General Buhari, who was once Head of State in this country.
"Just last year, he said that Boko Haram should be granted amnesty, that Boko Haram should be treated with kid gloves, that Boko Haram should be treated in the same way as the Niger Delta militants; that is
to say they should be sent abroad, paid a monthly salary and so forth and that they should not be killed," he explained.
The former minister further noted that the former Head of State had openly attempted to spread Sharia to all the states of the federation before, and that his objective back then now "tallies with the objective of Boko Haram".
"If you compare what's happening in Nigeria to what happened in Ireland some years ago, you had Sinn Fein on the one hand and then you had the IRA on the other. The IRA was the armed wing of Sinn Fein and as far as I'm concerned, Boko Haram could well be described as the armed wing of the opposition today.
"It's very clear to me when you look at all these things that Nigeria is a nation that is at war and we need to be able to do something about this and recognise that when we are at war, you don't start fighting the government of the day," he added.