Boko Haram: Jonathan advised to engage opposition, others in dialogue

President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups on ways of finding a lasting solution to the Boko Haram menace in the country.Veteran journalist and former special assistant to the late Chief MKO Abiola, Lisa Olu Akerele, said in a press statement in Abuja, on Wednesday, that the cult group had become a problem to all Nigerians no matter their political affiliations.Akerele said it had become necessary for President Jonathan to parley with all other political parties in the country to find a collective solution to the Boko Haram issue.Noting that the bomb being planted by Boko Haram did not discriminate between ethnic, religious or political divides, he said the need for all Nigerians to come together to halt the group was more compelling now than ever before in view of the current increase in the attacks.Akerele cautioned Ijaw indigenes to be more circumspect in their comments on the attacks, stressing that they were unwittingly pushing other ethnic groups in the country to unite against Jonathan.He pointed out that all groups had suffered from the bomb blasts, adding that it was unacceptable for the Ijaws to give the impression that other ethnic groups in the country had teamed up against the president because he is of a minority ethnic group.
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