Presidency condemns APC governors’ visit to Maiduguri

The presidency has described the recently celebrated visit of eight opposition governors to Maiduguri, Borno State, as a media circuit hurriedly packaged to pre-empt the planned visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the restive states of Borno and Yobe.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, made the assertion Tuesday in Abuja while addressing journalists in his office.

“This is surely an act of crass opportunism and political desperation on the part of these governors and the party they represent,” Mr. Okupe said.



Mr. Okupe said the governors were in Maiduguri simply to ‘feather their political nests’.

“Where were these governors in the last eighteen months that they were in office,” he asked.

He also added that the governors were in Borno as part of their mobilisation drive rather than any patriotic call to duty.

“These are desperate power mongers who flock together in spite of their obvious conflicting political philosophies and inordinate ambitions,” he added.

“Jonathan has performed exceedingly well in curbing insurgency”

Mr. Okupe also said President Jonathan has achieved what no leader has achieved anywhere in the world by greatly curbing the incidents of bombings and insurgency in general.

“No country has ever fought or ended insurgency in two years, but within the last eighteen months, incidences of bombing has drastically reduced, and it appears to be under containment,” he said.

He said the visit by the APC governors against security reports is “sheer political recklessness which could have caused Nigeria major security embarrassment, but for the fact that the Federal Government and its security apparatus took extra efforts to ensure that the visiting governors were safe,” Okupe said.

“Being elected officials, the onus was on the Federal Government to ensure that they were safe in spite of their being oblivious of the peculiar security implications and real potential dangers inherent in their hurriedly packaged visit,” he added.
 

APC governors walking on the streets of Maiduguri during their visit

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