(NIGERIA) The All Progressives Congress (APC) today, told President Goodluck Jonathan to stop shedding what it termed
crocodile tears over division among Nigeria.
The opposition APC said President Jonathan is only shedding crocodile tears with his lamentation over the fact that Nigeria has become more divided along religious and ethnic lines today than at anytime in its history.
In a statement by the parties National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, "Mr. President, there is no point being sanctimonious about an issue for which you bear the most responsibility.
"You are the most divisive leader in the history of Nigeria, having ceaselessly exploited the country’s fault lines for political gains. Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to pit Christians against Muslims by labelling the country’s main opposition party, the APC, an Islamic Party?
"Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to portray all adherents of a particular faith as terrorists? Not once did this President call his loquacious and sycophantic supporters to order when they were denigrating people of other tribes, calling them unprintable names.
"Not once did he call his supporters to order when they were threatening to bring the country down if he is not re-elected. President Jonathan himself led the divisive band by tagging the leaders of a whole people ‘rascals,’ just because people dared to protest against his administration’s policies.
"A man who got a pan-Nigerian mandate turned himself into a tribal leader, running a government that excludes a critical mass of the nation’s demography and pigeon-holing himself into an ethnic cocoon."
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