Nigeria’s main opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC) party
said President Goodluck Jonathan
lacks the moral right to seek a second
full year term in office following what
the group says has been the
deteriorating security situation in the
country.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed spokesman for
the APC said Jonathan so far has been
unable to carry out his fundamental
constitutional mandate to protect life
and property since the country’s faces
increasing violence often carried out
by Islamist insurgent group Boko
Haram.
“A man who has failed to discharge
the core responsibility of a president,
which is the protection of life and
property, has no moral right to seek
for re-election,” said Mohammed.
“In the last five years this government
has spent over $ 32 billion on security
and what do we have for it? We have
lost thousands of lives to Boko Haram
insurgency … yet the president insists
he must run for a second term,” he
said.
Mohammed said the administration in
Abuja has yet to implement
comprehensive security policies to
combat and defeat Boko Haram.
His comments came Friday after Vice
President Mohammed Namadi Sambo
officially presented Jonathan’s
presidential election nomination form
to the chairman of the ruling People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) in the capital,
Abuja. Jonathan has declared he will
seek re-election in next year’s
presidential vote.
This is a part some people will not like to hear, but we will say it here for historical purposes. When the great Biafran leader, Col. Dim Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu was granted a state pardon by President Shehu Shagari in 1982, the Ikemba soon contested for Senate under the then National Party of Nigeria (NPN), but did his people vote for him? Lest we also forget, he contested for the presidency, how many votes did he got even in Anambra? Let us bring in Chief Alex Ekweme. We recall, despite being founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),he contested for the party nomination for president in 2002. We all remember how the South-East governors then did all they could to outdo themselves to be seen to be more loyal to President Olusegun Obasanjo than even his own ministers. There was nothing wrong in all these for these people as long as it all guarantees fat bank accounts and unmerited rewards. No one talks about Biafra when contract figures are inflated; Biafra makes no sense ...
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