Jonathan politicising Nigeria’s security – APC

Alhaji Lai Mohammed

 The All Progressives Congress has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party of politicising Nigeria’s security by engaging in outright deception to exclude APC governors from the meeting the President had called on Thursday to discuss the security situation in the country.

This was contained in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The party said after deliberately excluding the governors from the meeting, the presidency and the PDP engaged in outright disinformation and distortion of facts to make it look as if the APC governors deliberately boycotted the meeting, apparently in an effort to make political gain from the whole issue.

The statement partly read, ‘’It is now clear that despite their inability to protect lives and property and to stop the terrorists attacks in the country, the presidency and the PDP are not interested in any genuine efforts to end the worsening security situation.

“It is patently obvious that their aim is to make political capital out of the tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, rather than to ameliorate the cruel fate being daily suffered by the citizens.”

APC notes that the same presidency that invited all state governors to the expanded National Security Council meeting, which was announced via a statement issued on April 16 by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, had no qualms in duping the APC governors out of the meeting and turning it to a parochial meeting of Governors of the PDP and its satellite parties, only to shift the blame on the same Governors who were “conned”.

However, attempts to get a reaction from the PDP proved abortive as calls to the mobile telephone line of the party’s spokersperson, Chief Olisa Metuh, indicated that it was switched off. When contacted, Metuh’s deputy, Abdullahi Jalo, referred our correspondent to his boss.
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