Yobe Killings: APC Attacks Jonathan Again
All Progressives Congress, APC, has attacked President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to visit Yobe State nearly a month after school children were killed by Boko Haram, but instead, 
embarking on “needless” foreign trips, and “campaign rallies” in other states.
The party in a statement issued today in Lagos by Its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Jonathan’s refusal to visit Yobe State, while finding time for political trips, shows “insensitivity” and provides a morale booster for the insurgents who attacked the students.
According to the statement, as the father of the nation and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Mr. Jonathan needs not be afraid to visit any part of the country for whatever reasons.
The party reminded the president in the press release that, he has not yet visited Yobe state, one month after the dastardly killing of many school children in the state, to commiserate with the government and the bereaved families.
It stated that the first month of the killings, which was Tuesday, provides another opportunity for the president to visit the state but, instead according to the party, the president’s planned his return from his latest trip abroad on Tuesday which coincides with the first month of the killings.
”As we said in our earlier statement on this issue on March 10th, ‘far from being a mere formality, such a visit will provide great succour to the families of the victims, reassure them and other residents of the state that their government has not abandoned them to their fate, and also serve as a morale booster for our gallant troops who are battling the terrorists, against all odds’,” the party said.
The party reminded the president that since the killings he has been traveling across Nigeria to illegally kick-start his campaign for the 2015 elections and journeyed to Namibia, Italy and Netherlands, in a needless junketing that belittles the massive security problems facing the country.
”Mr. President, charity begins at home. You cannot be engaging in photo-ops abroad when your country is burning,” the party said, adding, President Jonathan’s insensitive junketing and law-breaking campaign rallies across Nigeria best illustrate the old saying ”Nero fiddling while Rome burns”.
The party advised President Jonathan, as the father of the nation and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian armed forces, not to be afraid to visit any part of the country for whatever reason.
”In this case, President Jonathan’s pointed avoidance of Yobe, where the death of innocent school children highlights the senseless nature of the Boko Haram insurgency, is a morale booster of sorts to the cowards who murdered those children.
”If however the president has any reason why he does not want to visit the scene of the gruesome murders to commiserate with the bereaved families, he should tell Nigerians who have continued to wonder why he has been avoiding the state,” the statement concluded.
