slams Atiku over comment on Boko Haram, says, he’s privy to its roots

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tackled the presidential flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP the federal government’s failure to defeat the insurgent group puzzles him.

Responding to the comments, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, noted that the PDP groomed Boko Haram into the monster it became by the time President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015.

Speaking during the 11th edition of the scorecard series of Buhari’s administration on Tuesday, Mohammed said Atiku should ask PDP why it allowed Boko Haram insurgents to bomb the United Nations complex and police headquarters in Abuja.

“For six years until 2015, when our administration assumed office and inherited Boko Haram, the PDP more or less nurtured the insurgents to the monster they later became.

“Alhaji Atiku, who was then residing in Abuja before porting to his new abode in Dubai, should ask his party, the PDP, while it allowed Boko Haram to bomb the police headquarters, the UN complex, a shopping mall and motor parks in Abuja with so much ease,” Mohammed said.