The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has accused the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) of allowing Boko Haram grow in the North East.
Lawan said the 16 years maladministration of the PDP gave the insurgency opportunity to grow.
The Senate president made this known on Tuesday in Yobe State during the Presidential Campaign Rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC).
"PDP mismanaged and mal-administer Nigeria for 16 years.
"When Boko Haram started in the northeast, in Borno state, the then leadership of PDP said it was not true.
"There was nothing like Boko Haram and Boko Haram blossomed.
"Boko Haram flourished and Boko Haram gained ground and took root."
He further told president Muhammadu Buhari who was also at the campaign venue: "Your Excellency, Boko Haram caused maximum, devastating impacts in our lives here.
"Your Excellency, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa particularly, we were under a state of emergency for 18 months.
"For 18 months, the Federal Government then, stopped our statutory allocations to our local governments.
"We suffered, our people suffered.
"No developmental projects going on at all until you came in 2015.
"That was the salvation moment.
"We are indeed very grateful to Almighty God that the APC, that platform and the people of Nigeria needed a change.
"They needed a leadership that will care.
"They needed a leadership that will not segregate and that leadership is your leadership.
"During that time, even the ecological fund or stabilisation account was based on party.
"They will give to only PDP states.
"They will not give other states that were in opposition.
"You came, you changed all that.
"Your Excellency, today, we have 41 million registered Nigerians as APC members.
"All we need to do is mobilise our base."
Lawan further stressed that the state was an APC base, adding that they would deliver for the party in the forthcoming general elections.
"Your Excellency, Yobe State is an APC base.
"Infact at the risk of sounding controversial, I there say that there is no state in Nigeria that is more APC than Yobe State.
"We are going to deliver every contestable seat to APC in Yobe State.
"Your Excellency, you have been in the seat of leadership in this country.
"For the seven and half years, you have done wonderfully well.
"They lied. And lied and lied. They want us to believe that they did something.
"Infact PDP should be ashamed of itself. They destroyed this country.
"They should have no chance to go round this country, seeking the support of Nigerians."
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