President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation has said that there is no evidence linking the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

It nevertheless described Buhari as representing darkness and a return to “our ugly past.”

Director, Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.

Fani-Kayode said, “The fact that we have said that Buhari made suggestions or statements in the past (on Boko Haram) doesn’t mean that the government has evidence against him.

“But the APC has spoken against the proscription of the Boko Haram and if they take over, they might lift the ban on the sect.”

He said the Federal Government could not arraign people on the issue of Boko Haram without sufficient evidence to prosecute such persons.

Fani-Kayode also said the allegation against former Borno State Governor Ali Modu-Sheriff as sponsor of Boko Haram remained unproven because there had been no evidence to prove he was culpable.

He said, “This government is not in the habit of arraigning people when there is no hard evidence; it does not convict people on the pages of newspapers.