APC slams Pres. Jonathan over Nyanya Bomb Blast

The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said the time has come for President Goodluck Jonathan, to earn his epaulet as Commander-in-Chief by providing purposeful leadership.

This, the party noted, was what was required “rather than quietly egging on those who stupidly believe these insurgents are being sponsored by the opposition and some other ill-defined people to discredit the government.”

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement sent to the source via electronic mail.

The APC observed that it had been argued in certain quarters that the resurgent attacks and the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls were aimed at discrediting the Jonathan Administration, especially ahead of this week’s World Economic Forum on Africa.

It said what the theorists had conveniently forgotten, was that the activities of the insurgents tar every Nigerian, whether in the ruling or opposition party, with same brush and that no Nigerian, ultimately, benefits from these barbarous insurgency.

The statement partly read: “Therefore, Mr. President should rise above the fray and seize this moment in history to assert your leadership and stop whining about this insurgency. The buck stops on your desk, so stop pushing it to other people.

“If indeed you believe in the lies being peddled by your genuflecting and capricious party

officials that the opposition is behind these attacks, what prevents you from ordering the arrest and prosecution of these sponsors if you have concrete evidence of their involvement?

“In any case, how did these tales-by-the-moonlight sponsorship allegations prevent your government from frontally tackling this all-consuming insurgency? Does the head of a household refuse to put off a fire set on his roof because some arsonists are behind it? Mr. President, this is your battle to win or lose, and you are the one history will judge over the outcome, not those self-serving members of your party?”

Earlier, the party had described last Thursday’s second bombing at Nyanya, Abuja, as mindless, senseless and barbaric killing of innocent people by a group of demented people masquerading as ideologues.

The party also said the fact that the dead-enders could bomb the same area twice in as many weeks had given a fillip to the widening call on President Goodluck Jonathan to provide the much-needed leadership instead of shifting blames.

But the Peoples Democratic Party has slammed the APC for asking the President to lead, saying that party has nothing to offer Nigeria.

It asked Nigerians  to disregard the antics of the party, which it described as retrogressive.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday,  asked the APC to join Nigerians to be sober in these trying times.

He said, “This is a time for all Nigerians to come together and pray for the country. The APC has nothing to offer. It is wrong for the party to be talking politics now when the nation is in anguish.

“We are not going to engage them in talking or politicking over this matter. We will rely on the security agencies to speak in their efforts at rescuing our daughters.”

Meanwhile, the Trade Union Congress has said that the increasing terror perpetuated by the Islamic extremists, Boko Haram, is apparently overwhelming security agencies in the country.

TUC, in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, called on the government to devise better and appropriate security and intelligence gathering strategies.

The communiqué, which was signed by the TUC President, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama, and its Secretary-General, Mr. Musa Lawal, said the strategies should provide the necessary logistics and machineries to handle the situation.

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