The presidency yesterday replied a statement by the All Progressives Congress, APC, wherein President Goodluck Jonathan is accused of abdicating his responsibilities and running a corrupt government.
APC spokesman, Lai Mohammed in a press release Sunday afternoon, said Jonathan’s advise to campaigners asking for the release of over 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State, that they direct their protest to the Boko Haram sect means he was shying away from his responsibility.
“A government that is unwilling to take any responsibility for anything, and one that is unwilling to recognize that its raison d’etre is to ensure the welfare and security of its citizens has simply abdicated its responsibility, and should not be counted upon to do all that is necessary to rescue the over 200 girls who were abducted under its watch,” it said.
“If the Jonathan-led government is right, then anytime a country suffers from deadly flooding, for example, the people should rather blame the sea or the sea goddess instead of looking up to their government for succour. If the Jonathan-led government is right, then the US, Britain France, China as well as the UN, which have all been asking the government to do more to secure the homeland, are wrong and do not understand the concept of governance. Certainly, there is a problem somewhere.”
Reacting, the presidency said in a statement that the APC was “rude, silly, irresponsible and lacked logic.”
Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, noted that “While we admit that the opposition can claim that it is part of its duties to criticise the government of the day, in the case of the APC, many of its spokespersons have made it clear that their duty is to pull down the Jonathan government and they have not hidden this motive,” presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, said.
“If you look at the statement by Lai Muhammed, he is accusing the government of abdicating its responsibilities. President Jonathan has never at any time abdicated responsibilities,” he said.
Abati said the president’s statement on last Thursday, read by the FCT Minister of state, Abuja, Olajumoke Akinjide “was not saying they should not talk about government responsibility and talk only about Boko Haram. The president was calling for unity. He was calling for a proper focusing and targeting of the meaning of protest in this context.”
“Finally, Lai Muhammed in that statement kept talking about competence. What does he know about competence? What does he know about running anything?
“People who have never run a poultry are grandstanding about running a country. Lai Muhammed is not in the position to talk about competence. There is nothing in his record that grants him the authority or audacity to talk responsibly about competence.
“For him to be openly accusing the President of incompetence or corruption without any evidence to back it up, is to say the least, rude and silly,” Abati concluded.
Source: Dailypost
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