APC – Jonathan Not Capable Of Ending Boko Haram Insurgency, Corruption

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says President
Goodluck Jonathan lacks the capacity to tackle the
challenges facing the country. He has not been able to
do anything in six years, even if given more years,
nothing would change, the party claimed.
”The President has finally admitted that the two main
challenges facing the country are corruption and
insecurity, and seems to be telling Nigerians to give him
more time to tackle the problems. But the truth is that
he lacks the capacity to fight and defeat these
challenges, whether in six or 10 years,” the party said in
a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed.
”A President who has spent the last six years trying to
diagnose the main problems facing the country will
apparently need another four years to plan how to
tackle the challenges. By then, all of us would have
been buried under the rubble of corruption and our
country would have been decimated by insecurity. It is
therefore time for Nigerians to vote in a President who
will hit the ground running, a President who will tackle
the problems of corruption and insecurity headlong,
without giving excuses for failure,” it said.
The opposition slammed the Jonathan administration
as corrupt, noting that a corrupt government can never
fight corruption.
”Mr. President said he wants to put in place the
institutions to tackle corruption before taking on the
canker worm that has almost destroyed the fabric of
our society. Pray, whatever happened to the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC)? Were they not
institutions specifically created for the purpose of
tackling corruption, but which the Jonathan
Administration chose to castrate?
”There is no better way to say this: President Jonathan
lacks the political will to tackle corruption, and he will
not tackle it if he spends 60 years in office,” the
statement read.
The APC also criticized the way Jonathan has handled
Boko Haram insurgency. According to the party, the
president missed the chance to nip the menace in the
bud when it just started, as he was busy blaming
everyone.
”Had the President learnt a lesson or two from the
crushing defeat of the Maitatsine sect by Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, which signalled the death knell of
the sect that is a precursor of Boko Haram, the
insurgency that is daily claiming the lives of our citizens
would have been defeated early on.
”It is too late in the day for President Jonathan to
engage in sophistry over the twin evil of corruption and
insecurity. He has reached the limit of his capacity to
tackle these challenges and it is time to allow those
with necessary political will and capacity to take on the
challenges before they crush the country,” the party
said.