Former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Daniel Saror, has said that Nigeria’s present security crisis is part of a well-coordinated plan to extend the caliphate across the country.
The university don made the claim on Sunday at a thanksgiving ceremony in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, to commemorate his 80th birthday.
Professor Saror said that the instability in Benue and other areas of the nation is not by chance, but is planned, and that terrorist groups such as Boko Haram are “well linked” to stakeholders in the country and other parts of the world.
He said: “the insecurity we are experiencing in Benue and Nigeria today is not an accident. It is a planned programme. Boko Haram does not consist of miscreants. They are intelligent people; they are highly connected in Nigeria and other countries in the world.
“Their mission is simple: they want to conquer and Islamise the nation. The Jihadists that you hear about in the North West are also not miscreants. They are highly connected, highly motivated, and highly experienced in their own ideas and what they want. They want to spread the caliphate throughout Nigeria”.
He further alleged that the armed Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents have contacts that extend to the Middle East, Asia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia among others, stressing that they are funded in billions of naira to execute the conquest agenda of the caliphate in the country.
Governor Samuel Ortom, who also attended the thanksgiving service, while giving a remark, described the Professor as a detribalised Nigerian who had recorded milestones in academia, politics among others, stressing that he deserved to be celebrated.