The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan
“bears a huge moral responsibility that will hunt him for a long time to
come” for allowing the Boko Haram menace to fester, leading to the
deaths of over 15,000 Nigerians and the displacement of over 3 million
others in the past six years.
In a statement issued in London on
Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the
party also hailed the military for the successes it has recorded in the
battle against Boko Haram in recent times, saying the string of
victories confirms the party’s stand that the Nigerian military can hold
its own anywhere and anytime, if provided with the necessary equipment
and if the morale of the troops is not undermined.
President
Goodluck Jonathan has finally owned up to his globally-acknowledged
incompetence, a development which, in truly democratic societies, should
be part of a statement of resignation by a leader whose terrible error
of judgement has caused so many deaths and inflicted so much pain and
sorrow on his compatriots.
APC said the truth is that President
Jonathan deliberately allowed the Boko Haram crisis to fester because he
and his team saw it as their trump card for winning re-election in 2015
by currying local and global sectarian sympathy with a
Muslim-group-killing-Christians narrative that totally distorts the fact
that Boko Haram is a band of marauders who have no consideration for
ethnicity, regionalism, religion or any other thing beyond their mad
disposition to terror.
The party said the marauders are
equal-opportunity killers who went after Christians, Muslims,
northerners, southerners, men, women, the old, the young, the rich and
the poor.
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