One of the leading opposition parties in the country, The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has accused President Jonathan’s led government of playing politics with national security and the Boko Haram sect with an eye on the 2015 general elections.
CPC in a communiqué by its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, accused the Presidency of deliberately playing up security fears with a view “to using unconscionable schemes to delude, confuse and over-awe the citizenry ahead of the next general election in 2015.
“The Congress for Progressive Change ,CPC,is aware that the pre-eminent desire of Nigerians under this nation-space is security, which, under this PDP-led regime, has been an elusive phenomenon. This is sadly so, because the Jonathan-led regime prefers political profiting from the menace of insecurity to obliterating the scourge from the nation’s landscape,” the statement said.
The party also accused the Presidency of possessing a dual-face on the Boko Haram amnesty, explaining that Pastor Oristejafor‘s opposition to dialogue with the sect might indicate the real position of the president.
The statement reads, “As the president’s confidant, was he projecting the president’s unexpressed desire? This double-faced posturing by the Federal Government is, undoubtedly, a show of its insincerity, which has quite rightly alienated some of the members of the proposed amnesty committee,” the party said.
The statement further accused the present administration of patronising ex-militants at the expense of the police, adding that “this government’s action is being intensified in other regions of the country, ahead of the regime’s preparation for another election in 2015. The regime’s propagandist machine has caused the Boko Haram phenomenon to defy reasonable logic. In February 2013, a French family of seven persons was held hostage by terrorists in Cameroon. The Boko Haram sect was reported to be responsible.
They were allegedly brought to Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect. The hostages were freed last week in Cameroon and released to the French government. Was it the ‘ghostly’ Boko Haram that negotiated the hostages’ release with the French?”
“Was any insurgent (in captivity in Nigeria) released in exchange for the hostages? How did the Boko Haram sect cross (at will) Nigeria’s borders with all the hostages, without the knowledge of Nigerian security apparatus? Shall we assume that the Boko Haram sect has spread its operational base to Cameroon?” the party asked.
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with the Nigerian people in ensuring the noble ideals of the rule of law reign in our land. We shall continue to campaign against the vestiges of impunity and all forms of corruption and corrupt tendencies that are prevalent in this PDP-led administration,” the statement said.
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