Osun State Governor Rauf Argebesola has described the
recent killing of no fewer than 47 persons including
schoolchildren and teachers in Potiskum, Yobe State , on
Monday in a bomb explosion as unfortunate.
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Governor Aregbesola who was in tears condemned the
killing while delivering a lecture titled, ‘Federalism,
democracy and the future of Nigeria,’ during the
Convocation Lecture and 66th Foundation Day Ceremony,
University of Ibadan on Tuesday.
Governor Aregebesola said: “It is unfortunate that even if
we should ask ourselves what the mood of the nation
should be now, we do not know. Nigeria should be
mourning by now. Nigeria’s flag must fly at half mast
now.
We should be wearing mournful look and ask
ourselves how we got to be where we are now.
“Fifty of our schoolchildren and teachers were killed in a
suicide attack on Monday in Potiskum and we act as if it
is normal.
We don’t even have the feeling anymore, the
conscience, the emotion and the fact that the only thing
we have is life.
“I will not be where I am today if I had been slaughtered
like that in school.
That is just one of the statistics. In the
same Yobe, some students were slaughtered at night
while in Borno, schoolgirls were taken away and yet to be
found or returned.
“Territories of Nigeria are being paraded by lunatics, mad
men, who could not be called normal human beings. Yet,
we carried on as if all these do not matter.
We have
forgotten that whatever is happening to a neighbour is a
sign of what could come to others.”
Former Vice President and APC Presidential Aspirant,
Atiku Abubakar has condemned “the “senseless murder
of these innocent students.”
Former military Head of State (rtd) Muhammadu
Buhari has also condemned the attack saying:” there was
no doubt that we were going through a dark chapter in
the history of our country.”
Recall, recently Governor Rauf
Aregbesola had condemned the senseless killings by the
dreaded Boko Haram sect as he said there’s justification
in Islam to back the incessant violent attacks .
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