The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians
to use their votes to express their dissatisfaction with
President Goodluck Jonathan for his inability to fight the
two main challenges facing the country, corruption and
security, despite having six years to do so.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party stated
that even if Jonathan ruled the country for 60 years he
cannot fight corruption and terrorism.
“The President has finally admitted that the two main
challenges facing the country are corruption and insecurity,
and seems to be telling Nigerians to give him more time to
tackle the problems. But the truth is that he lacks the
capacity to fight and defeat these challenges, whether in six
or 10 years,” the party said.
“A President who has spent the last six years trying to
diagnose the main problems facing the country will
apparently need another four years to plan how to tackle the
challenges. By then, all of us would have been buried under
the rubble of corruption and our country would have been
decimated by insecurity. It is therefore time for Nigerians to
vote in a President who will hit the ground running, a
President who will tackle the problems of corruption and
insecurity headlong, without giving excuses for failure,” it
said.
APC said a corrupt government can never fight corruption,
hence it will be futile to expect the Jonathan Administration
to take on and defeat corruption, having been populated by
profiteering personalities.
“Mr. President said he wants to put in place the institutions
to tackle corruption before taking on the canker worm that
has almost destroyed the fabric of our society. Pray,
whatever happened to the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)? Were they
not institutions specifically created for the purpose of
tackling corruption, but which the Jonathan Administration
chose to castrate?
“There is no better way to say this: President Jonathan
lacks the political will to tackle corruption, and he will not
tackle it if he spends 60 years in office,” the party said.
It also said the President missed a golden opportunity to
take on and defeat the Boko Haram insurgency in its early
stages, and instead chose to engage in shadowboxing.
When he was not blaming everyone but his Administration
for the insurgency, he was playing primordial politics with it,
to such an extent that the terrorists became strengthened
and emboldened to strike at times and places of their own
choosing.
“Had the President learnt a lesson or two from the crushing
defeat of the Maitatsine sect by General Muhammadu
Buhari, which signalled the death knell of the sect that is a
precursor of Boko Haram, the insurgency that is daily
claiming the lives of our citizens would have been defeated
early on.
“It is too late in the day for President Jonathan to engage in
sophistry over the twin evil of corruption and insecurity. He
has reached the limit of his capacity to tackle these
challenges and it is time to allow those with necessary
political will and capacity to take on the challenges before
they crush the country,” the statement said. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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