The party in a statement yesterday,
described Boko Haram as the enemy of Nigeria, rather than a group set up
by the opposition to bring down the Jonathan administration.
Interim national publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in the statement said the killing of the emire is the clearest indication that the Jonathan administration has misdiagnosed the Boko Haram menace from the onset.
The APC said while Boko Haram started in 2002 when Obasanjo was President and flared in 2009 during Yar’Adua’s administration, it is deceitful and diversionary for anyone to portray it as an attempt to make Nigeria ungovernable under Jonathan.
“Boko Haram is not a northern response to a southern presidency, as some would have us believe. 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.
“That 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.
“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 asked.
The party said the insurgency has festered because the government started off by not seeing it for what it is, thus losing valuable time to combat it.
“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,’’ it said.
Interim national publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in the statement said the killing of the emire is the clearest indication that the Jonathan administration has misdiagnosed the Boko Haram menace from the onset.
The APC said while Boko Haram started in 2002 when Obasanjo was President and flared in 2009 during Yar’Adua’s administration, it is deceitful and diversionary for anyone to portray it as an attempt to make Nigeria ungovernable under Jonathan.
“Boko Haram is not a northern response to a southern presidency, as some would have us believe. 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.
“That 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.
“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 asked.
The party said the insurgency has festered because the government started off by not seeing it for what it is, thus losing valuable time to combat it.
“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,’’ it said.
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