Group photographs of President Barack Obama and eleven leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) taken at the White House, Washington DC in 2014 during a visit are still everywhere on the internet.
APC, then in opposition with Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate sent 11 leaders who paid the visit with an objective it didn’t hide – prevailing on and convincing Obama why he should withhold every or any military assistance to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan against Boko Haram terrorists.
The terrorists have been responsible for the death of over 67,000 Nigerians and caused billions of dollars in monetary losses by the government to fight them.
A look at the group photo of Obama with APC showed people we know too well and who are still around managing the affairs of Nigeria as members of the political party in power.
The APC delegation specifically begged Obama not to assist Jonathan’s government, which was Nigeria, to fight Boko Haram. They accused President Jonathan of abusing the rights of terrorists. With the turn of events, it seems we didn’t know the depth of that visit as facts of deeper conspiracy are surfacing.
However in the third week of July 2015, after Buhari had become president, he paid an official visit to the US and lamented that the refusal of Obama’s government to sell ammunition or give support to Nigeria aided and abetted Islamic terrorists, Boko in the assault on Nigeria.
Did he just forget that his party leaders visited Obama and pleaded with him to do just that, alleging that Jonathan’s military was involved in serious rights abuses against Boko Haram terrorists? Or was this statement a mere facade?
At the US Congress hearing into the activities of USAID in the past years on Thursday, Rep. Scot Perry of the Republican Party representing Pennsylvania slammed USAID with the allegation of funding terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, with as much as $697 million annually. This has elicited concerns by some security experts and diplomats in Nigeria. He said more – that another $60m spent on a mirage of women empowerment is suspected to have also funded terror groups including Boko Haram.
This revelation seems to piece the puzzles together concerning the APC, its visit to Obama, and the role the US president played in destabilising five African countries that were affected by Boko Haram terrorism, with Nigeria suffering the highest casualty. Perry named other terror groups sponsored and funded through USAID including ISIS and Al Shabab.
Recall also when President Jonathan wanted to negotiate with Boko Haram in one of his moves at bringing peace that the terrorist group selected Buhari on November 1, 2012, as their representative, an offer he turned down.
With the revelation at the US Congress that Obama used the US government’s agency to fund Boko Haram to destroy Nigeria one is compelled to ask for an explanation from the APC. You can connect the dots. A commonsense judgement deduces what exactly happened, the relationship between Obama, Buhari, and APC, and who possibly worked for Boko Haram against Nigeria.
Was APC part of the Boko Haram sponsorship working with Obama, the reason he hosted leaders of the party in Washington before the election when APC admitted that it went to solicit Obama’s support to the party in the 2015 election in addition to the request not to give support to Jonathan against Boko Haram?
In a public statement in February 2014, APC said it engaged AKPD, a media and image management body to support its campaign to win power. It admitted that AKPD has links with Obama’s Democratic Party and worked for Obama during his campaign in 2008 and 2012, a fact in the public domain.
These make us ask exactly what the shape and definition of the AKPD work for APC was as Obama is linked to Boko Haram, a group Buhari declared was not a criminal body, did nothing wrong, and was just a bad tag Jonathan hung on the neck of some good people as an excuse to kill northern young people.
A little after Boko Haram kidnapped 278 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, an incident many had been questioning the possibility of moving this number of people may be in more than 10 vehicles how nobody spotted them, and where they ended, Michelle Obama began a Twitter hashtag campaign, #BringBackOurGirls.
She possibly was also in the know of what her husband was doing to Nigeria.
This scene is looking so much like what should spark litigation involving Obama in the ICC at the behest of some Nigerian interest groups for funding mass deaths, abduction, arson, destabilisation, and ruining of the country through Boko Haram.
Obama didn’t stop at anything as he got the consent of US allies not to give any support to Nigeria in any form against Boko Haram. Obama’s moves against Nigeria included stopping the purchase of Nigerian crude oil and making it impossible for the country to fund the terror war.
The offence we know Jonathan committed against Obama was the anti-LGBT law the National Assembly enacted which was signed by the president and the refusal that the US should not militarize the Gulf of Guinea.
On the APC and Buhari’s connection, the APC presidential candidate during his campaign was quite vehement that it would not take him more than a few months to end Boko Haram when in power. But that never happened.
When Buhari was in power, the Attorney General announced twice a plan to name Boko Haram sponsors and never did. Instead, during one of his visits to New York he sang another tune on why the government is reneging on naming any sponsors.
We wonder now who actually the sponsors were. Were they outsiders working with APC, reason Buhari was often quite assertive was that with him in power, in just three months, Boko Haram would belong to history.
We waited in vain for eight years for him to keep the promise.
