Gbajabiamila denies comparing IPOB, Yoruba Nation agitators with Boko Haram, ISWAP

Home of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied evaluating the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra (IPOB) and Yoruba Nation agitators to Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP).

The consultant of the Surulere space of Lagos is beneath hearth for his feedback at Wednesday’s plenary.

An announcement Wednesday night time by his spokesman, Lanre Fasasi insisted there was no point out of any group throughout Gbaja’s deal with.

He famous that the Speaker condemned miscreants and criminals for benefiting from the separatist agitations to hold out unscrupulous acts.

Fasasi stated his principal expressed concern about rising threats that current the clear and current hazard.

He quoted Gbajabiamila as saying: “Within the South of Nigeria, East and West, miscreants and criminals masquerading as separatist activists have emerged to wreak havoc, take lives and commit financial sabotage in opposition to fellow Nigerians and the state.

“These folks, of their inclination for devastating violence in opposition to fellow residents, their urge for food for the destruction of personal property, their disruption of educational actions, commerce, and business, their propensity for defiling establishments of the state, society and group, their refusal to interact in debate, or to think about the potential of dissenting opinions and different viewpoints, are not any completely different from Boko Haram and ISWAP.”

Fasasi stated what was conspicuous within the speech was the concentrate on the actions of miscreants, criminals and results on the nation.

The aide pressured that the Speaker by no means condemned secessionists or in contrast them to terrorists.

“The Speaker will not be alone on the priority about an obvious emergence of a band of miscreants and criminals as completely different patriotic Nigerians have expressed comparable issues”, the assertion added.