Sunday 1 June 2014
“Boko Haram Is Not A Northern Response To Southern Presidency” APC Condemns Killing Of Gwoza Emir
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Sunday in
strong terms condemned the killing of the Emir of
Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta and urged a section of
the public to desist from labeling the sect as a
response to Jonathan’s Presidency.
The Emir was Friday killed by suspected members
of the dreaded Boko Haram sect was on his way to
the funeral of the Emir of Gombe who had passed
on at a hospital in London.
The Opposition party in a statement issued in
Lagos, by it’s Interim National Publicity Secretary,
Lai Mohammed said, ”Boko Haram is not a
northern response to a southern presidency, as
some would have us believe.
The statement reads, “Boko Haram is an enemy of
Nigeria; whether Christians or Muslims,
southerners or northerners, the lowly or the elite,
the young or the old, the poor and the rich. They
must be seen for what they are: fringe elements
who happen to have linked up with other terror
groups around the world to acquire training and
weapons which they are now using to terrorize a
whole nation.”
According to the party, the Emirs, who are
Muslims and symbols of power in the north, can be
so dastardly attacked, with deadly consequences,
should convince those who would rather engage in
blame game than fight the bandits that what the
country faces is neither a strictly religious nor
elite war, and make them to change their jaundiced
mindset
The party maintained that, ”If indeed Boko Haram
was sponsored by the so-called northern elites
against Jonathan, how come they are not even
sparing the same elites? If indeed Boko Haram is
sponsored by the north against Jonathan, why are
their deadly attacks concentrated in the north,
where they have killed thousands and destroyed
facilities and infrastructure worth billions?
The party urged Nigerians to see Boko Haram for
what it is, and come together as a people to fight
the insurgents, rather than engage in denial, blame
game and finger pointing that can only weaken our
resolve as a nation to tackle this fringe group
squarely.
”Those who saw Boko Haram, erroneously, as a
political trump card have now suffered a
boomerang, and today the Jonathan
Administration is seen globally as incompetent,
clueless and rudderless largely because of its inept
handling of the Boko Haram insurgency,
especially the unfortunate abduction of innocent
school girls which has lingered. This is what you
get when you play politics with a serious national
problem,” the party said.
”We also reiterate our offer to join hands with the
government in a non-partisan effort to battle the
menace of Boko Haram, even though the
government has yet to reach out to us since we
made that offer,” the statement concluded.[NewswireNGR]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment