Jonathan’s actions, election motivated, too late – APC

The All Progressives
Congress has
described as too little,
too late the recent
election-propelled
pretend acts of
governance by
President Goodluck
Jonathan to convince
Nigerians to vote for
him and his party in
the forthcoming polls.
”Mr. President, you
cannot undo, in six
weeks, the glaring
instances of
cluelessness,
incompetence and
near total lack of
governance that your
administration has
exhibited in the past
six years, even if you
move Aso Rock to the
South-West or bribe
every Nigerian with
the proceeds of
corruption,” the party
said in a statement
issued in Lagos on
Sunday by its National
Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
”Your Administration-
sanctioned smear
campaigns against APC
leaders, your
obscenity-laden
meeting with youths,
your offer of jobs to
167 out of over 40
million unemployed
youths, and your
temporary relocation
to the South-West
where you believe
your Naira and Dollar
rain will translate to
votes are all belated
and of no effect,” it
said.
APC said all the
President’s latter-day
efforts went up in
smokes on Saturday
when over one million
Nigerians marched
through the streets of
Lagos in support of
change, even as a
hurriedly-organized,
pretend march led by
the President in Abuja
failed to distract from
the success of the
Lagos march, as
envisaged by the
organisers.
The party said its
latest opinion poll on
the forthcoming
elections shows that
Nigerians have already
made up their minds
regarding which party
they will vote for,
even before the six-
week postponement
of the elections, which
was orchestrated to
allow the sinking PDP
and its candidates at
all levels to recover
from the dizzying
effect of the daily
blows being dealt on
them by Nigerians.
It said a President who
was playing dirty
politics while over
15,000 Nigerians were
being murdered by
the Boko Haram
cannot now expect to
reap from a sudden
resurgence in the fight
against the terrorists.
”Mr. President, you
had all of six years to
secure the lives and
property of Nigerians,
provide jobs, improve
the economy, give
Nigerians constant
power supply and curb
corruption, but you did
none of those things.
”Under your watch, Mr.
President, the
economy has virtually
collapsed with the US
Dollar now
exchanging for over
220 Naira, the highest
ever. Millions of
youths are roaming
the streets even as
your government
fleeces them from
time to time over
phantom jobs,
industries are
collapsing in droves,
Nigerians are more
divided than ever,
many states and even
the FG can’t pay
workers’ salaries and
corruption is at an all-
time high as the
looting of the public
treasury has become
the order of the day
while Nigerians have
never felt so insecure.
”It is amazing,
therefore, how you
can even think that six
weeks of
unprecedented
bribery of individuals,
pretend governance,
and cash-induced
occult-like ‘prayer’
sessions, among
others, will turn the
tide in your favour.
Nigerians are not
fooled by your antics,
Mr. President. Your
efforts are too little,
too late,” APC said.
The party said it is now
glaring that the
missing 20 billion
dollars, the multi-
billion-Naira pension
scam and the multi-
trillion oil subsidy
fraud, just to mention
a few, all fed into the
massive bribery that
the Jonathan
Administration has
engaged in over the
past few weeks,
hoping to buy the
votes of Nigerians.