Elder statesman and former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has alleged that the main opposition party in the country, All Progressives Congress (APC) are supporting the insurgency in Nigeria to ensure they get into power.
He also claimed that there are sinister moves to rig out President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.
According to him, “Well, I believe that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has been supporting the insurgency. They are anti-government and have not done anything to support the fight against the insurgents but rather, they seem to be supporting them. A situation whereby, the President wants to do anything, to carry out his normal functions, like him declaring his intention to contest the 2015 election, on the previous day you will have this bombing.”
“It is the main aim of the insurgents to prevent Mr. President from declaring his intention, or doing anything, to make him a lame duck and to paralyse his government, this is their intention. So, if on the eve of a particular programme of Mr. President, there are bomb blasts and the president goes ahead with the event only for the opposition to capitalize on it and criticize him, then, it is very unpatriotic. So, it was very unfair for the opposition to say that Mr. President has no sympathy for the dead that he was dancing on their graves.”
“That was very uncivilized statement by whoever made it. So, it shows that some of them believe in whatever the insurgents do to frustrate the government, to frustrate the actions and activities of Mr. President and it is not good enough.”
He also accused the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega of being an ethnic bigot who is promoting the interests of the North by tryimg to create additional 30,000 polling units.
“When President appointed Professor Attahiru Jega, he gave us an impression that Prof. Jega was an independent man, Prof. Jega is a neutral man, but we have seen that Prof. Jega is a tribalist who is ready to promote his ethnic nationalism, who does not believe in doing the right thing.”
“We have been always supporting him but his recent attitude particularly his introduction of the 30,000 polling units is not in the interest of Nigerians, it shows clearly who Prof Jega is. The 30,000 units should have given the North an advantage, whereas in the whole of the South, it gives them only about 8000 units.”
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