In the video, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer General Muhammadu Buhari appears to have commanded his supporters to "halaka" (which means "kill", we read).
The clip is supposedly from the 2011 electioneering, and while the exact date and time of the clip cannot be verified, the translation of the video reads as below:
General Buhari's team has responded swiftly as well, saying the video has been maliciously edited, and they have produced their own version of that speech.
The one minute 56 second video shows Buhari addressing the crowd ahead of the 2011 elections. The video (which has the NTA bug on it) shows Buhari campaigning under the CPC platform and saying: “Ku fita ku yi zabe. Ku Kasa, ku tsare, ku raka ku tsaya. Duk wanda bai yarda ba, ku halaka shi.”
The English translation reads: “Firstly, you must register, come out and vote. You guard, protect, escort to the collation centre and you wait until the result is counted. Anyone who stops you, kill them!!! (Crowd chants wildly.)”
The video (which, expectedly has begun to trend) has drawn divergent sides to the comments section. The Cable however quotes an interesting commenter as saying that those words are not as literal in the Hausa language: “It’s like kare jini, biri jini that he also used (in his statement that “the dog and the baboon getting soaked in blood” if the 2011 election was rigged). It’s completely taken out of context. That proverb means it’s going be a fight to the finish. Most of the Hausa vocabulary Buhari used are in everyday use, so if they are that bad, we won’t be using it in day-to-day talk.”
The video has already gotten 13,000 views in its first three days. It was uploaded on December 23, 2014.
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