Nigeria Leader ‘Lacks Moral Right’ to Seek Re-Election

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.