Jonathan’s Incompetence, Corruption, Are Reasons For The Nation's Insecurity APC tells PDP

The APC has called President Jonathan the most incompetent President ever to lead the Nation, and its not because he is a minority.

APC said that PDP is using Jonathan's ethnicity as a veil to cover up his incompetence, cluelessness and inferiority complex.”

APC released a press statement today in Ibadan signed by Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed where he says that the PDP's claim that Boko Haram insurgency and other insecurity in the nation were being sponsored by them because the president is not from a majority was wrong.

He reminded the PDP that First Republic Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa (Sayewa), and military heads of state, Yakubu Gowon (Angas), and Sani Abacha (Kanuri) where all from the minority tribee.

He said: ”The PDP has recently been making outlandish statements and accusations that are capable of destabilising Nigeria. In its new found proclivity for issuing frivolous press statements, the party has forgotten that facts are sacred and cannot be manipulated. But even by its low standard, the PDP has plumbed the depth of irresponsibility with its latest claim.

”President Jonathan’s woes have nothing to do with his minority ethnicity, but the manifestation of his incompetence, cluelessness and inferiority complex, and the fact that he is backed by a greedy, visionless and crooked cabal, both within his government and his party.”

The party said if indeed the PDP believes the opposition is sponsoring Boko Haram to stop President Jonathan from realizing his ‘so-called Transformation Agenda,’ what prevents the PDP-led Federal Government from instituting a probe into all the incidences so far, and to unravel the sources of the sect’s weapons, as demanded recently by Governor Murtala Nyako.

The APC reminds Jonathan that before he came into office, Boko Haram existed and started in 2002, and only aggravated in 2009 when the police failed to curb the crisis after a dozen policemen where killed.

He continued: Instead of tackling the insurgency decisively as a well-honed leader would have done, the clueless President and his equally feckless party have resorted to blaming the opposition and everyone but themselves for the worsening of the crisis,”.

Nigerians are aware that as a minority, Mr. Jonathan could not have become President without the votes of the country’s majority ethnic groups- Hausa/Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba.

”In any case, if the PDP is arguing that President Jonathan is being ‘persecuted’ because he hails from a minority ethnic group, is it the majority ethnic groups that supposedly voted massively for him that are now persecuting him? And what will be their reasons for persecuting the same man they voted into office? ”The truth is that President Jonathan is overwhelmed by the demands of his office, and his party is more interested in looting the public treasury than assisting him to succeed,”. ”

The President and his party should admit their failure to meet the yearnings and aspirations of Nigeria and give way to those who are willing and able to perform.”

APC said a country that has no discernible counter-terrorism strategy that will clearly identify the multiple means for preventing, responding and defeating terrorist groups, including the alignment of political, military, social and economic instruments and objectives, cannot expect to successfully battle any insurgency.”

We have continued to offer suggestions to this government on how it can tackle the insurgency that is now ravaging a part of the country. We have called for improved intelligence gathering, the aligning of military and political solutions, the need to de-radicalize the affected areas as well as to invest in research that will give more insight into the different aspects of Boko Haram, including its ideology, leadership structure, profile of members, internal organization, sources of funding and weapons and links to diaspora.”

We have stressed the need to widen the scope of our response to include the sub-regional bloc ECOWAS and the continental body African Union, especially since Boko Haram has assumed a regional dimension. We have called for a Marshall Plan of sorts for the North-east, not the paltry 2 billion Naira which the FG provided as recovery fund to the six North-east states, at least four of which are worse-hit by the insurgency.”

We have called for an end to inter-agency rivalries that have weakened the fight against the terrorists, and we have advocated the need to lift the morale of our gallant men and women in uniform who are battling the insurgency, instead of the huge funds allocated for the purpose of upgrading their equipment ending in the deep pockets of fat cats. ”

If and when these and other recommendations are taken seriously by the government, instead of resorting to ethnic and religious excuses, then it will begin to seriously address the insurgency,” the party said.

Source: Legit.ng