Nigerians’ resolve to sack PDP irreversible, APC tells Jonathan

All Progressives Con­gress (APC) has de­scribed the renewed effort to tackle Boko Haram and other ills in the country as too little and too late, saying Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan can no longer convince the electorate to vote for him in the March 28 presidential poll.

A statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Lai Mohammed yesterday said: “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.
“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.’’
The party said its latest opinion poll on the forthcom­ing elections showed that Ni­gerians had already made up their minds regarding which party to vote for, before the six-week postponement of the elections, which it alleged was orchestrated to allow the sinking Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candi­dates at all levels “recover from the dizzying effect of the daily blows being dealt on them by Nigerians.”
It insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan, who was “playing dirty politics while over 15,000 Nigerians were being murdered by the evil Boko Haram cannot now ex­pect to reap from a sudden resurgence in the fight against the terrorists.”
The statement said: “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 N220, 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 Federal Government 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.