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.