APC slams GEJ for allowing Boko Haram fester, lauds military for recent victories

by Damilola Jagun

The All Progressives Congress has criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the menace of Boko Haram deteriorate to a point where thousands of Nigerians have been killed and millions displaced in the past six years.

The party stated that the president “bears a huge moral responsibility that will hunt him for a long time to come” for not taking immediate action to tackle the rise of the terrorist sect.

In a statement released on Tuesday, February 24, in London by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party while chastising Jonathan, commended the military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times.

The party stated that 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.”

Furthermore, APC accused President Jonathan of deliberately allowing 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.”