{"id":76083,"date":"2025-10-05T00:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76083"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:43:44","slug":"jonathan-denies-allegations-linking-buhari-to-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/05\/jonathan-denies-allegations-linking-buhari-to-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Denies Allegations Linking Buhari to Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jonathan Denies Allegations Linking Buhari to Boko Haram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed reports suggesting he accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of having ties with the terrorist group Boko Haram, describing the claims as \u201cgrossly misrepresented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan\u2019s clarification followed media reports that distorted his comments made during the launch of a book authored by former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor (rtd).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan emphasized that he never implied or insinuated that Buhari supported Boko Haram or was complicit in the insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that his remarks were intended to expose Boko Haram\u2019s deceptive tactics, particularly how the group invoked the names of respected public figures without their consent to sow confusion and political division.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a documented instance, the former president recalled how certain factions falsely claimed to represent Boko Haram and listed prominent Nigerians as mediators without their approval.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the logic of the accusation, noting that if Buhari had indeed been a Boko Haram-appointed negotiator, the group\u2019s violent campaign would have ceased once he assumed office as president.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan reaffirmed that both he and Buhari have always been committed to peace and national unity, adding that Buhari himself was once a target of Boko Haram attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians to disregard the misinterpretations of his remarks and appealed to the media to prioritize truth and national interest over sensationalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Denies Allegations Linking Buhari to Boko Haram By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed reports suggesting he accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of having ties with the terrorist group Boko Haram, describing the claims as \u201cgrossly misrepresented.\u201d Jonathan\u2019s clarification followed media reports that distorted his comments made during the launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76085,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76083\/revisions\/76085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}