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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday urged the nations leaders led by President Goodluck Jonathan, to embrace global standard in good governance and thereby winning global respect for the country.

The party said this in a statement signed by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The APC said the resignation of South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hong-won, over his governments much-criticised poor handling of the April 16 ferry disaster that left over 300 dead or missing, must jolt the conscience of Nigerian leaders, who have been found wanting when they found themselves in similar situations.

The party said until our leaders hold themselves to higher standards, as it was being done in other democracies around the world, they would continue to perpetuate impunity, celebrate mediocrity and cling to power at all costs, even when it was clear that there were not serving any other interest but theirs.

According to the party, the resignation of the South Korean Prime Minister was the culmination of widespread public criticism of the government over the handling of the ferry disaster, especially the slow pace of recovery of the bodies of victims and the conflicting information given by the government over the tragedy.

It said the Prime Minister, also stepped down even though he had paid a visit to the families of the victims, just like the President of South Korea.

The statement partly read, Compare this with the situation in our country, where about 20 job seekers died in a stampede that was directly caused by poor planning and execution by a government agency on March 15, 2014, and for which the supervising minister blamed the victims instead of accepting responsibility.

Compare this with the aftermath of the killing of 75 citizens and wounding of over 200 in a bombing at a bus station in Nyanya, after which the President quickly embarked on an illegal campaign rally in Kano during which he was dancing Skelewu on the graves of the victims, or his trip to Ibadan for a birthday party.

Compare this with the business-as-usual posture of the Federal Government and the playing up of the controversy surrounding Tuesdays political rally by the PDP in Adamawa State, even as over 200 schoolgirls have continued to languish in the den of the insurgents in the Sambisa Forest.

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