Jonathan insensitive to insurgency victims’ plight - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan is exhibiting traits of an insensitive leader by returning to campaign barely 24 hours after 75 Nigerians died in a bomb blast in Abuja and 200 school girls were abducted in Borno.

The APC in a statement by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the President’s quick return to political rallies was reprehensible and has shown that his visit to the scene of the Abuja blast was merely to avoid the kind of criticism he received

when he did not visit Yobe after 43 school children were killed recently, rather than a genuine show of sympathy.
The party said, ‘The message that President Jonathan is sending to Nigerians is that keeping his plum job, at all cost, is more important to him than the security and welfare of the same people who voted him into office. Otherwise, the President would not have rushed back to his illegal campaign trail at a time he should be leading the nation in mourning the dead.
“A President who said his ambition is not worth the blood of anyone is now dancing gleefully on the graves of over 70 of his compatriots. What is so important about the illegal campaign stop in Kano on Tuesday that could not have waited for the smoke to clear from the scene of the deadly blast on Monday? Who will President Jonathan rule over when his countrymen and women are being daily mowed down under his watch?
“Without mincing words, President Jonathan erred badly by not showing enough sympathy for the victims of Monday’s blast. More people died in the blast than from Kenya’s mall shooting last September, yet President Uhuru Kenyatta declared three days of national mourning during which flags at public buildings flew at half mast and the people of Kenya prayed for the dead and the injured.
Mohammed recalled that In 2012, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ordered the postponement of all activities long planned to mark his 70th birthday, following the death in a helicopter crash of Gen. Azazi, Gov. Yakowa and others in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa and urged President Jonathan to take a moment of deep self-examination, to reflect on his actions.