As the news of the twin bomb blasts in Jos continues to cause ripples around the country, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of being insincere in its war against terror.
The opposition party bared its mind on the matter via a communiqué which was read by the interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
This was a resolution arrived at by the party after a four-hour meeting which was held yesterday at the party’s National Headquarters in Abuja.
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Mohammed said the APC was disappointed that the Federal Government had yet to reach out to it in spite of a subsisting offer of assistance and an appeal to the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration to convene a national security summit.The party said, “We make bold to say that the Federal Government has been very insincere in its persistent call for national unity to combat the despicable Boko Haram sect.“This has been manifest, perhaps more than at any other time, since the tragic abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok over a month ago.“Up till this moment, the Federal Government has yet to reach out to the APC, the main opposition party, on how to forge a common front against this despicable terror group, despite our incessant efforts to reach out to the government.“Nigerians will recall our various interventions in which we stated clearly that only a non-partisan approach could help extricate Nigeria from the death grip of Boko Haram; how we have consistently called on the government to organise a national stakeholders’ summit to put all efforts together and how we have made a number of recommendations which we feel can help pep up the fight against the terror group.“The only response we have received so far is that in which the government said it had implemented or it is implementing those recommendations anyway, in what clearly amounts to an unnecessary hubris and a cold shoulder.”
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