The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Alh. Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, on Friday said President Goodluck Jonathan allowed the reign of Boko Haram because he did not take any bold step for three years.
He accused Jonathan of treating the insurgency as a religious war.
Bashir said: “Initially, President Jonathan’s understanding of the sects’ phenomenon emanated from the wrong perception and wrong imputation that actually plunged the country into where it is today.
“The worst part of it is that it even took Jonathan more than three years to appreciate and understand that Boko Haram is a terrible mix of lack of education, misinterpretation of what Islam and the Quran teaches and stands for.”
Bashir lamented that more Nigerians were now corrupt while the military had been politicised because of Jonathan’s lacklustre attitude towards governance.
Bashir also expressed regrets that corruption was one of the priorities of President Jonathan administration, adding that poverty, unemployment, injustice, gun-trafficking, frustration, struggle against inequality, and general poor governance became the order of the day.
On the economy, Bashir observed that Nigeria’s gross domestic product, GDP, in the country did not reflect on the living condition of most people, adding that government inability to protect the citizenry was largely responsible for the crisis especially in the North-East.
Speaking on Gen Muhammadu’s victory at the polls, the PDM chairman said there lied a herculean task before the president-elect.
He, however, expressed optimism that with the track-records of the incoming president, there would be changes.
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