APC Blasts President Jonathan for Failing to Address Boko Haram Insurgency for 6 Years
The All Progressives Congress has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to take immediate action against the Boko Haram insurgency when due six years ago.
The party released a statement on Tuesday in London by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, however, commending the military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times.
The statement said: ”the recent victories by the military 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.
”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.”
