APC Blames PDP For Insurgency

The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress yesterday accused the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration and the Peoples Democratic Party of impunity and tendency to cuddle corruption.
The party said this has again come to the fore with the recent release to Capital Oil Limited all its assets hitherto lawfully acquired by the Assets Management Company of Nigeria as a result of its involvement in the fuel subsidy scam.
The APC further alleged that the second term bid of President Jonathan is being financed with monies looted from the oil subsidy.
The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, stated this at a press briefing he addressed in Abuja.
Odigie-Oyegun, in his speech, entitled: “Building a new Nigeria,” accused the President of lacking sympathy for Nigerians who are dieing on daily basis for different reasons.
He maintained that it was nothing but aiding and abetting of corruption for the government to release the Capital Oil assets been managed by AMCON.
According to the APC National Chairman: “We see another manifestation of the PDP administration’s fondness for impunity and its disturbing tendency to cuddle corruption, in the recent release to Capital Oil Ltd all its assets hitherto lawfully acquired by AMCON as a result of its said involvement in the fuel subsidy scam.
“It is not a secret that the proprietor of Capital Oil is the coordinator or convener of the widely derided Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria that is at the forefront of the obscene and doomed campaign for the reelection of President Goodluck Jonathan.
“A great nation like Nigeria should not be run with such crass disdain for decency, common sense and the rule of law.”
While alleging that President Jonathan has failed, the party’s National Chairman called on Nigerians to vote him out during the general elections of next year.
Odigie-Oyegun similarly accused the President Jonathan-led administration of feeding fat on the rot of insurgency and the monies spent so far.
Responding to a question on the issue of security in the country, the National Chairman of the APC said: “The issue of security is a fundamental challenge that is facing the nation.
“Boko Haram has been with us for almost a decade and has continued to grow in strength.
“We thought that a state of emergency will give our military the freedom to operate and so, the nation supported the National Assembly when the President requested for a state of emergency.
“The state of emergency came and things have continued to degenerate. Its not logical that you ask yourself what could be wrong?
“As a matter of fact, we have, on a number of times, pleaded that an impartial international commission of Inquiry be set up to look into this Boko Haram issue, he said.