APCPCO Accuses Jonathan of Using Religion as Campaign Tool
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, APC PCO, has berated President Goodluck Jonathan for using worship centres as platforms for making official statements and announcing government policies.
The organisation’s Director of Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, stated this on Thursday, accusing the president of soliciting votes on religion bases although they had accused Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, of being a religious fanatic.
He also said the recent allegations that the president had bribed religious leaders to help him garner support in the elections, reek of “incompetence and non-performance”.
He said: “It is necessary to state that all points of the Yoruba agenda that could have favoured the Southwest, in cluding regional autonomy, restructuring, devolution of power and parliamentary system, could not sail through at the conference.
“These people knew that though they deceived Nigerians, particularly the Yoruba people, with the ostensible reason, but the real reason for the endorsement was because of their personal economy.
“Some of them have had their personal finances transformed by way of juicy, but dubious security contracts and handsome cash largesse by the government of Dr. Jonathan at the expense of Nigerian people.
“We consider it asinine that any group can predicate its support for Dr. Jonathan on his promise to respect any agreement. The antecedents of Dr. Jonathan speak eloquently of a serial promise-breaker, unreliable keeper of gentlemanly agreement and unabashed turncoat.
“It would be recalled that the first real show of Dr. Jonathan’s immense capacity for not keeping to pacts was when he, in 2010, conveniently walked away from his party’s North/South zoning arrangement, of which he was signatory to, with indescribable villainy.
“There is virtually a litany of reports from committees, which he empanelled, that have remained unimplemented in his four-year presidency thus far. Dr. Jonathan, as President, who refused to assent to the Bill that will empower Nigerians with disabilities, is doubtful would ever contemplate supporting better life for Nigerians without disabilities.
“It is a known fact that of all the four hundred and ninety two (492) members of the National confab, none was elected by the people. A comparison of this arrangement with that of the Constituent Assembly of 1977 revealed a conference that had most of the members elected by the people and which naturally brought on the 1979 Constitution.
“We are appalled that despite the pretences of members of this group to democracy, they thought it fit to attempt to stampede a nation to giving assent to a piece of document that bore the imprimatur of a negligible minority. Truth be told, the conferees of the confab were not representatives of the people.
“It is on the basis of the foregoing that we believe that the purported endorsement of Dr. Jonathan by members of this group was infernal, jejune, and meaningless. We urge the people of the Southwest to discountenance this as another distraction from the stable of the utterly despicable, but desperate regime of Dr. Jonathan”.
