The All Progressives Congress has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to stop complaining about the role of so called sponsors responsible for Boko Haram menace and instead nip the problem in the bud.
The APC made the remarks in an emailed statement made available by Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The statement reads partly, “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?”
In its response, the Peoples Democratic Party via its spokesman Chief Olisa Metuh said the APC had nothing to offer the country in the form of leadership.
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.”
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