The Presidency has lambasted a political scientist, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, for allegedly raising a false alarm that 88 people were killed in a bomb blast in Maiduguri, Borno State on Eid-el-Kabir day.
He was said to have raised the alarm on an interview programmes, Politics Today, on Channels Television.
The Presidency, in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said Osuntokun had never hidden his antipathy towards the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
It reasoned, however, that for him “to go on national television and tell lies of the most heinous kind betrays a mind taken completely over by ill wishes against his own country.”
The Presidency said that Osuntokun’s action was a futile bid to puncture the successes recorded by government in the area of security.
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The statement reads in part: “Till the Sallah holidays ended, no bomb blast was recorded in any part of the country, to the shame and discomfiture of the naysayers.
“One wonders: if there were bomb blasts, and more than 80 people truly died, what would be the gain of anybody, except those who have become blinded by malediction and morbid wishes? Is carnage something now to glory about? Is the struggle for power now so ghoulish that some people have lost their humanity over it?
“Osuntokun and his ilk should realize that this is the only country we have, and we can’t swallow poison and expect it to kill the next person. What we sow is what we reap.
“Happily, however, those for a peaceful, united and cohesive Nigeria are more than those against it. That is why those with baleful, hateful thoughts would never win.
“The tripod goals of securing the country, fighting corruption, and reviving the economy are central to the Buhari administration. Government is making strides in the three areas, and the conquests continue.”
