Ahmadu Ali is a retired Army Colonel, a physician and politician. In 1973, he became the first Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a position he held until 1975 when he was appointed Minister of Education, during which he was nicknamed ‘Ali Must Go’ on account of a nationwide students protest. He served also as Chairman of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) from 2005 to 2007.
By the time he finished his assignment as head of ‘africa’s largest party’, the Kogi State-born politician had acquired another controversial alias; the ‘Garrison Commander.’ In the last general elections, he was the Director-General of the Goodluck Jonathan/Mohammed Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation, which saw the PDP out of power, after a 16-year rule.
Even under the current PDP crisis, his wife, Mrs. Ali is a chieftain of the Ali Modu Sherrif-led PDP faction while he remains with the Ahmed Makarfi faction.
When he spoke with JACOB EDI at his Maitama Abuja residence, he didn’t mince words when he said the avengers came from a very infinitesimal tribe. This is in spite of the clashes between the avengers and the government. He also accused western powers of being behind the crisis within the country with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the country for their economic and political gains.
In his statement Ali said, "we may not actually know the origin or sponsors of the avengers, because the government are trying to fix the issue of the Boko Haram,and suddenly some people now call themselves the Avengers, what are they avenging? If Nigeria can tolerate their son to rule over us for six years, a very infinitesimal tribe, not even as large as Igala, what are you avenging? Because you lost an election?
That shouldn't be enough reason,we fought for him as a party, but we are not very popular up north now but it is our party and we are fighting for our party. So why should they come up and say Avengers during Buhari’s own time. What are they avenging?
There is no reason for avenging over anything and if they thing they can continue with their game,then belief me, they are no threat to the Nigeria government.
As long as we in Nigeria can sit up and behave ourselves, we will be able to hold forth; but if we cannot, we will fuel the ambition of the Western World because what they would have wanted is to capture the oil producing area and put it in their pocket and do whatever they like. All the wars in the world, the source of the war is fight for energy, they are getting petrol from Iraq now free of charge, Libya free of charge now, there is no government in those places. Boko Haram itself, Taliban, whatever name you call them, they are all the creation of the western powers. He said.
