The All Progressives Congress (APC)
Friday urged Nigerians to show President
Goodluck Jonathan a red card in the
coming presidential elections on the
grounds of his inability to fight the two
main challenges of insecurity and
corruption facing the country despite
having six years to do so.
”The President has finally admitted that
the two main challenges facing the
country are corruption and insecurity,
and seems to be telling Nigerians to give
him more time to tackle the problems.
But the truth is that he lacks the capacity
to fight and defeat these challenges,
whether in six or 10 years,” the party said
in a statement issued in Lagos in
response to President Jonathan’s claim
that he has recognised the two main
issues Nigerians say worry them.
The statement issued by the party’s
national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed said:
”A President who has spent the last six
years trying to diagnose the main
problems facing the country will
apparently need another four years to
plan how to tackle the challenges. By then,
all of us would have been buried under
the rubble of corruption and our country
would have been decimated by insecurity.
It is therefore time for Nigerians to vote in
a President who will hit the ground
running, a President who will tackle the
problems of corruption and insecurity
headlong, without giving excuses for
failure,” it said.
APC said a corrupt government can never
fight corruption, hence it will be futile to
expect the Jonathan Administration to
take on and defeat corruption, having
been populated by profiteering
personalities.
”Mr. President said he wants to put in
place the institutions to tackle corruption
before taking on the canker worm that
has almost destroyed the fabric of our
society. Pray, whatever happened to the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the Independent
Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC)? Were they
not institutions specifically created for the
purpose of tackling corruption, but which
the Jonathan Administration chose to
castrate?
”There is no better way to say this:
President Jonathan lacks the political will
to tackle corruption, and he will not tackle
it if he spends 60 years in office,” the
party said.