Opposition sponsoring attacks to stop Jonathan - PDP The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the opposition is behind the series of attacks in the country, adding that the aim is to stop the second term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. It said it arrived at this conclusion after a careful examination of the trend and character of the spate of insurgency and sectarian violence in the country. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Tuesday, alleged that these acts of terrorism were being sponsored by unpatriotic elements whose aim was also to discredit the person, office and administration of President Jonathan. Metuh said the tactic was to distract and detract the President, constrain the successful delivery of the President’s transformation programme so as to portray him as non- performing and finally ridicule his score card when time reckons(during election). He said it was beyond conjecture that the Nigerian version of terrorism was the product of what he described as a narrow political persuasion that he said defies logic and reason. He said, “We accept the reality of terrorism as a global phenomenon, however, the peculiar trend of the Nigerian version which subsists on a welter of nebulous demands and masked identities, hacking down innocent Nigerians - women, children and the elderly in an awful scorch earth fashion, and in an obstinate ridicule of dialogue, defies all reason and logic and only summarizes a well considered agenda of national destabilization for a purely selfish political cause. We pointedly finger the opposition. “We recall statements by some politicians, vowing to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on the eve of the 2011 general elections, and therefore adjure Nigerians to rise against this brute ideology of violence from which a tiny clique of the political class intends to benefit ultimately. It is the climax of wickedness only heard of the Lucifer in the distant bosom of hell fire.” Metuh added in the statement that it was clear that Jonathan was being persecuted for no other reason than being a Nigerian from the minority, arguing that no leader in the history of the country had faced the height of persecution that the President has been subjected to since he assumed office. He said, “Ironically, this is in spite of his humility and his fidelity to the orthodoxy of all democratic norms and values. This is in spite of his proven commitment to the unity and progress of every party of Nigeria irrespective of tribe and religion. Ironically, this is in spite of his proven competence and record delivery of his electoral promises.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:24:55 +0000