YOBE EXPLOSION: It Is Unfortunate - Governor Aregbesola

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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