By Our Correspondent
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress party (APC) for recently raining insults on President Goodluck Jonathan.
The party had in some national dailies described the President as incompetent, clueless and suffering from inferiority complex.
But the Ijaw group said that with the latest comments coming from the APC, it has shown that they were only interested in seizing power from President Jonathan and not interested in solving the nation’s problems, adding that every Nigerian was duty bound to respect the office of the President and the occupant of the office irrespective of any political affiliation.
In a statement signed by IYC Spokeperson , Barrister Eric Omare and made available to journalists in Warri, the group stated that they were disappointed that such a comment was coming from a leading opposition party as the APC, emphasizing that it was uncultured and disrespectful for the opposition party to insult the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The statement reads; “The Ijaw Youth Council, Worldwide has read with disappointment the press statement issued by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and published in several national dailies recently wherein it referred to President Goddluck Jonathan as the most incompetent Nigeria Leader ever, clueless and suffering from inferiority complex.”
“The opposition is supposed to offer alternative solutions to problems rather than raining abuses upon abuses on the person of President Goodluck Jonathan on a daily basis. By making the abusing of President Jonathan its manifesto, it clearly shows that APC’s sole purpose is to take power from President Jonathan and not to solve the problems confronting Nigeria. We are confident that the APC’s plans would fail and the party is doomed for massive electoral shock and defeat in 2015. If the APC is unaware, let it be informed!” it further stated.
The group argued that contrary to APC’s assertion that the President had not performed well, President Jonathan had performed far above any other Nigerian President within the period he has been in office, adding that APC was using its entrenched position to make false impression about the president.
The group further said; “The truth is that the established elements in the opposition APC are using their entrenched positions to create a false impression that President Jonathan is not performing contrary to the facts on ground. Indeed President Jonathan has done very well and deserved the support of Nigerians. The multifarious problems confronting Nigeria were not created by President Jonathan and did not also start under him. Hence, all Nigerians must support President Jonathan in efforts towards moving Nigeria forward.”
“By its conduct, the APC has shown that it is a congregation of power hungry politicians who want to take over the Presidency from President Goodluck Jonathan at all costs. We wish to state that the PDP was right to say that the opposition is behind the acts of Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern part of the country. It is an open secret that leading opposition figures such as General Mohammadu Buhari and Mallam El Rufai are very sympathetic to the activities of Boko Haram and indeed has spoken in support of Boko Haram in the past. Therefore, the PDP is right to accuse the opposition of supporting the Boko Haram insurgency, the Ijaw group added.
