Jonathan Lacks Capacity to Fight Corruption, Insecurity, Says APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians to use their votes to express their dissatisfaction with President Goodluck Jonathan for his inability to fight corruption and insecurity, the two main challenges facing the country, despite having six years to do so.

The party said in a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that the President had finally admitted that the two main challenges facing the country were corruption and insecurity, and seemed to be telling Nigerians to give him more time to tackle the problems.

According to APC,”the truth is that he lacks the capacity to fight and defeat these challenges, whether in six or 10 years.

''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 could never fight corruption, hence it would 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.

It also said the President missed a golden opportunity to take on and defeat the Boko Haram insurgency in its early stages, and instead, chose to engage in shadowboxing.

“When he was not blaming everyone but his Administration for the insurgency, he was playing primordial politics with it, to such an extent that the terrorists became strengthened and emboldened to strike at times and places of their own choosing", they said.