Jonathan has poor understanding of insurgency, says Obasanjo

Former Head of State, President Olusegun Obasanjo in his characteristic manner Wednesday could not hold back his attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in its poor understanding of the Boko Haram insurgency.right from the unset.
Obansanjo said that Jonanthan’s government would have used a proactive approach to wipe out the group at the very beginning before becoming a torn in the flesh of the country presently.
Obasanjo spoke at the launch of the Autobiography on former President of the Court of Appeal and pioneer Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Retired Justice Mustapha Akanbi. held in Abuja.
According to him, “Boko Haram is not simply a menace based on religion or one directed to frustrated anybody’s political ambition. It is essentially a socio-economic problem that is tainted with religion”’
“It is a gargantuan danger to the nation and to all Nigerians. President Jonathan’s understanding of Boko Haram phenomenon suffered from wrong reading and wrong imputation. That is what led us to where we are today,” he said.
Obasanjo blamed Jonathan for the dilly-dally approach the administration has adopted in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency.
“It took even the President more than three years to appreciate and understand that it is a terrible mix of poor education or lack of education, misinterpretation of what is almost and the Quran teach and stand for, poverty, unemployment, injustice, drug, gun trafficking, human trafficking, fallout from Libya, revenge, frustration, struggle against inequality, imitation of international terrorism leading to training and part of the absorption by international terrorists groups and general poor governance including corruption.”
Obasanjo also took a swipe at the Jonathan administration, accusing the government of naked display of corruption, thereby hampering the nation’s economy.
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