Attack on Buhari shows we’re not Boko Haram sponsors —APC
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) said the constant allegation that
its leaders are sponsors and sympathisers of Boko Haram has been
disproved by the Wednesday’s attack on its central figure, former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari.
The party condemned the twin bombing of Kaduna, saying the consequences
of Buhari being caught by the attack were being imagined.
A
statement from its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, in Lagos, also expressed
shock over the attack which targeted Buhari and a prominent cleric,
Dahiru Bauchi.
It added that the attempted assassination of
General Buhari had changed the narrative about the insurgent group and
knocked the bottom off the alleged sinister and partisan colouration
given to the insurgency by the Federal Government.
The party
said while no one had yet claimed responsibility for the attack, the
mere fact that it occurred at all was a lose-lose situation for the
President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration.
“Whether it is
Boko Haram or not, one thing remains: This government has failed
woefully in its core constitutional duty of protecting the security and
welfare of the citizenry. And we mean all the citizens, not just the
leaders.
“Contrary to the simplistic and clearly selfish
portrayal of the Boko Haram insurgency as a sinister plot to bring down
the government of Jonathan, it should now be clear to the Federal
Government that Boko Haram is an enemy of Nigeria and of all of
humanity.
“It is a real problem that is capable of consuming
this country if immediate and urgent steps are not made now by the
government to move away from its politicisation of the crisis, its
decision to use it as a trump card for President Jonathan’s re-election
and exploit it as a ticket to international relevance for the president.
“If anything untoward had happened to General Buhari on
Wednesday, the consequences are only better imagined than witnessed,”
the party said.
It added that “if, indeed, the APC is behind
Boko Haram and General Buhari is a sympathiser of the evil group, as the
Federal Government wants the world to believe, could it be that the
insurgents do not know their leaders or sympathisers, assuming they are
behind the attack?
“If they are not responsible for the
attack, doesn’t that support the theory in some circles that Boko Haram
has become a franchise, hence there is the Boko Haram of Abubakar Shekau
and the political Boko Haram?
“Whatever happens now, the
repulsive theory of the PDP-led government that the opposition APC is
using Boko Haram to truncate the administration of Jonathan is up in
flames.
“Therefore, it is time for them to change the
narrative, see Boko Haram for what it is - an enemy of Nigeria - and
rally the citizenry, irrespective of their political, ethnic or
religious affiliation, behind the government’s efforts to tackle it
decisively.”
It asked that instead of dividing Nigerians along
religious, ethnic and political lines, President Jonathan should borrow a
leaf from his predecessors, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Alhaji Umaru
Yar’Adua, who never said the Niger Delta militancy was aimed at their
government or people, but tackled it headlong.
The party
reiterated its earlier stand that only a non-partisan approach would
galvanise Nigerians against Boko Haram, which, it alleged, was rooted
more in the years of bad governance that had resulted in mass
unemployment, corruption and economic imbalances.
It repeated its offer to work with the Federal Government to battle
Boko Haram and its call for a national stakeholders’ conference to help
fashion out a comprehensive counter-insurgent blueprint for the nation.
7/25/2014
Attack on Buhari shows we’re not Boko Haram sponsors —APC
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