Just In: I see danger looming — Fani Kayode cries out over US report on terrorism

Former Aviation minister Chief Femi Fani Kayode has reacted to reports by the United States that terror groups AL Qaeda and ISIS are planning two expand their operations by infiltrating the Southern part of Nigeria.

Kayode said such reports must be taken seriously and called on the South to form a united front and resist any form of security threats identified in the region, otherwise, the South would also be destabilized like the North where Boko Haram/ISWAP have wrecked havoc for years.


Speaking in a post he shared on his Facebook page, Kayode said, "The claim by the United States that Al Qaeda and ISIS are planning to infiltrate the south is alarming. If true, the south will soon experience the barbarity and savagery that the north has been subjected to by these two terrorist organisations over the years. We must UNITE and RESIST them to save our people and our nation.

"We may have differences between ourselves which ultimately can be resolved but we must not allow these two evil terrorist organisations to turn our nation into a cauldron of fire. They seek to tear us apart and destroy us ALL and only a fool would say otherwise. We must not allow them to do this."




Meanwhile, reports have emerged that some Boko Haram fighters have somehow found their way into the Middlebelt and reportedly observed Salah celebration in Niger State, according to a released video footage by the terror group.




The footage showed about three fighters sending Eid greetings in Hausa, English and Fulfulde to viewers.

“It is we the Jamahatu Ali Sunna li Dawatul Jihad in the location of Niger State. We want to send our Sallah salutation, first of all to our imam, Abu Muhammad Ibn Abubakar Shekau,” one of the terrorists dressed in a Nigerian police uniform said.

The sect had in June released a new video and confirmed its link with the armed groups operating in the North-West and North-Central part of the country.


Bulama Bukarti, an analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London, while reacting to the video on Twitter warned the Nigerian Government not to treat the sect with levity.

He said, “This video, if genuine, is further evidence that BH has expanded to the north-central.

“The dense forest there is a perfect haven for terrorists and if the group is able to consolidate its presence in Niger, it can easily target Abuja as well as to other states like Kwara and Kogi.



“I won’t get tired of urging the FG and the Niger State Government to take this threat seriously.

“We shouldn’t wait until the situation gets out of control before we start running helter-skelter. We better nip this challenge from the bud before it grows too gigantic to be uprooted.”