Insecurity, fallout of Jonathan’s re-election bid – CPC

[Mirror]

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has blamed the security challenges in the country on President Goodluck Jonathan's ambition to return to power in 2015.

The party which restated the call by its leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, for Jonathan to resign, noted that the President on assumption of office two years ago engaged himself with his re-election bid rather than working towards achieving his electoral promises.

The CPC National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, said in a statement yesterday that: "It seems that the President, for the self-centred reason of his re-election desire, is at the epicentre of most of the dire security challenges assailing our dear nation

. "As our national leader once asserted, we believe it is time for the President to throw in the towel because he has ceased to serve the nation but self."

While assessing Jonathan's mid-term tenure as President, Fashakin said: "The time is propitious, therefore, to take a retrospective look at the last three years of political governance of the nation.

"The performance score-card on the economy, security, education, youth employment, foreign relations and infrastructural development reveals overall dismal failure."

The CPC national publicity secretary noted that shortly after being sworn in as President, Jonathan showed more interest in securing another mandate than in working assiduously for the Nigerian people who elected him.

He said: "Posters of President's electioneering campaigns for the 2015 elections have continued to adorn our cities, with hypocritical denials from government. It did not matter that no arrests have been made of the culprits!

National Mirror

[Folami David]

I honestly believe very soon this issue of insecurity would be a thing of the past. I strongly believe that.