2015: Jonathan playing politics with insecurity - CPC

2015: Jonathan playing politics with insecurity - CPC

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of playing politics with the current wave of insecurity as part of strategy for the 2015 general elections.

The Presidency yesterday hit back at the CPC over the  statement accusing Jonathan’s administration of insincerity in tackling insecurity.

National publicity secretary of the party, Rotimi Fashakin, said yesterday in a statement lamented that in the last two years, the government has been patronizing ex-militant leaders with hefty security contracts in a manner that showed abandonment of the constitutional function of the Nigeria Police.

    He said the government’s action, perceived as deleterious to the Socio-Political harmony of the land, is being intensified in other regions of the Country, ahead of the administration’s preparation for the 2015 elections.

    Fashakin said, “On 1st October, 2010, there were bomb blasts near the Eagle square, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan, being more preoccupied with gaining some electoral credit through guiding public opinion to a decided outcome, declared to the Nation: “it is not MEND!” It did not matter anymore that formal investigation and subsequent litigious procedure had confirmed the culpability of MEND in the bombing.

In essence, the Nigerian President, not only showed insularity unbecoming of National leaders, but was only pre-eminently concerned about winning his Party’s nomination while the Nation burned!

    “The post-election violence in April 2011 that disrupted the peace in some parts of Northern Nigeria was seen as a spontaneous reaction of the people to the subversion of their electoral rights. Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor, the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and President Jonathan’s side-kick, called a Press conference and bizarrely demanded the arrest of General Muhammadu Buhari. It did not matter that the fashionable Cleric did not possess verifiable evidence to support his claim. Presidential Spokesman Reuben Abati, in a statement, described the statement earlier issued by the CPC spokesman, Rotimi Fashakin, as “a thoroughly incoherent, stream of consciousness rambling that serves no purpose other than that it fits into a pattern of perpetual heckling and “wolf crying” by a defeated, unimaginative group that hides under the guise of being an opposition.

“More discerning persons know the truth: that the CPC and its ACN conspirators will say anything no matter how unreasonable just so they can be seen to be saying something in the name of politics.”

According to Abati, “the Jonathan administration remains resolutely committed to the pursuit of the transformation agenda and will not be distracted or discouraged by those who in hustling for relevance have chosen to place their selfish interests before and above the national interest.”