Saturday, January 3, 2015

Jonathan lacks capacity to fight insecurity, corruption – 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 the two main chal­lenges facing the country: corruption and insecu­rity, despite having been in power for six years.

‘’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 overcome these challenges, whether in six or 10 years,’’ the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
‘’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.
While saying that a corrupt government can never fight corruption, APC spokesman added that 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.

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