Aborted Chibok trip: Jonathan betrayed Nigerians, says APC
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File photo
The All Progressives Congress on Sunday said by failing to visit Chibok, Borno State, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram since April 14, President Goodluck Jonathan had betrayed Nigerians who voted him into office.
The party said the cancellation of the allegedly planned presidential visit to Chibok was indicative of the Jonathan administrations policy flip-flop in the fight against Boko Haram.
In a statement in Lagos, its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC said the Jonathan administration had bungled the fight against the sect and exhibited cluelessness in handling the abduction of the schoolgirls.
The party said, With his utterances and actions or inaction, President Jonathan has deepened the pains of the parents and guardians of the girls, and indeed that of the whole nation, when he should have been the consoler-in-chief at such a difficult time for a nation he leads.
A President and Commander-in-Chief, who is afraid to visit any part of his country, has betrayed the very people who voted him into office. In the case of Chibok, he has shown that the residents of the town should not expect to be seen as compatriots by their own President; hence they are on their own.
APC accused Jonathans administration of lying to Nigerians by saying the President never planned to visit Chibok, even when it was widely reported that the Presidents advance team had landed in Borno State.
The party described the Presidents explanation that he did not go to Chibok because the girls were not being held there as pedestrian.
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Aborted Chibok trip: Jonathan betrayed Nigerians, says APC