@APCNigeria promise to defeat Jonathan and #BokoHaram

by Kolapo Olapoju

The major opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised to end President Goodluck Jonathan’s reign next year and also recapture all territories lost to the terrorist group, Boko Haram, if the party wins the Presidency at the 2015 polls.

The national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, made the statements while addressing a press conference at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, 13 November.

Oyegun accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the President of allowing the terrorist group to take over control of “eight of the twenty seven local governments in Borno, about three local governments in Yobe state and five local governments in Adamawa, as recently revealed by the government of the three states.

He assured that an APC led Federal Government would take back the parts of Northeastern Nigerian which have been overrun and taken over by the insurgents.

He said, “We will reclaim every inch of Nigerian territory, and liberate fellow citizens who, under the current dispensation, are resigned to life as captured and conquered citizens. Our people will be mobilized to support and honour our men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line to ensure that we are all protected.”

The APC leader also chastised President Jonathan and the PDP for giving series of excuses to justify their failure to arrest the challenges bedevling the nation. He made mention of Jonathan’s declaration for re-election, which he said showed that the “PDP cannot deliver on any of the same promises it has failed to honour in over a decade and a half in power.”

“Two days ago, you heard President Goodluck Jonathan announce himself as the candidate of the PDP and asked Nigerians for another four years as President. You heard a lot of claims, misrepresentations and voodoo statistics, none of which can stand the barest scrutiny. Disregard them!”

“You heard excuses for failure to fix basic infrastructure, arrest unprecedented levels of corruption and halt the march of terrorists daily inching nearer all of us. You heard promises that sound familiar because you have heard them all before since his six (6) years as President. Do not give the party that has savaged Nigeria in the last 16 years an opportunity to finally finish off our dear nation. The PDP cannot deliver on any of the same promises it has failed to honour in over a decade and a half in power”.

“You heard two days ago President Jonathan saying that good leaders do not walk away from the people, sadly though the statement is true, our President who wants another four years does not show evidence of sympathy for hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens who are now Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) as a result of the occupation of their land by Boko Haram.”

Oyegun also criticised the President for not visiting the victims of insurgent attacks, saying he prefers to hide in his ‘comfort zone’, while also urging Nigerians to vote for the APC to guarantee a better and more prosperous future.

“He brings no relief or comfort to those living under the reign of terror. About 50 young Nigerian School Children were killed and several others injured in Potiskum just a few days before the extravaganza show of his declaration. Yet we do not hear of a Presidential visit to the families of the victims, a pattern that has become usual.”

“Our President lives in his comfort zone, content to utter words, and ‘minutes of silence’ that have no meaning to the victims. We should end the journey with President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 and elect a leader who will be part of our lives and lead with courage and empathy.”

“Armed with your mandate, we will raise the standards of governance and condition of living of all citizens to levels which all Nigerians deserve as of right,” he said. “We will stop the rot and the descent to uncertainty and disaster which the sixteen years of PDP misrule has plunged us to as a nation. We will restore to Nigerians the hope and assurance that our nation can be made whole again, and that our leaders will submit themselves to the will and needs of our people.”

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