Abducted School Girls: Stop Blaming Shettima For Your Failures- APc To Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress has warned President Goodluck Jonathan against blaming Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State for the recent abduction of over 200 girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state. The Interim National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, while speaking at a news conference in Lagos, on Sunday said Jonathan should wake up and stop pointing accusing fingers at others, adding that the nation was on auto-pilot. According to Akande, the Jonathan’s led administration should rather be blamed for the abduction saga and the endless killings of innocent citizens. He said, “Today(Sunday), we call on President Jonathan to earn his epaulette as the Commander-in-Chief and stop passing the buck. We remind him that as the Chief Security Officer of the nation, he cannot and must not pass the buck. “We remind him that having imposed emergency rule on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, he has assumed full responsibility for the security of lives and property in those states, and that it is disingenuous of him to point accusing fingers at the governors of those states, who cannot even move around their states freely without clearance. “Even without the Boko Haram crisis, the nation ran itself as if on auto-pilot. The Jonathan administration did little and depended on the ingenuity of the Nigerian people to fend for themselves and cover up governmental shortcomings. “However, a crisis has come which no amount of private ingenuity can resolve. Only government can answer this call. The time has come for strategy and action. The time has come but government has been found wanting,” he added.