PDP accuses 'opposition' of sponsoring insurgency and killings in Nigeria

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday declared that the high wave of insurgency and sectarian violence across the country are sponsored to undermine the person, office and administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. 

The party accused the “opposition” of sponsoring the attacks, adding that the tactic is to distract the president, constrain the successful delivery of his transformation agenda so as to portray him as non-performing and finally ridicule his score card when time of reckoning comes.

The party, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Oliseh Metuh, further declared that Jonathan was being persecuted solely because he hails from a minority part of the country.The party however said Jonathan has performed beyond expectation, arguing that no leader in the history of the country had faced the magnitude of persecution that the president has been subjected to since he assumed office.

The statement reads in part: “It is beyond conjecture that the Nigerian version of terrorism is the product of a narrow political persuasion that defies logic and reason. We accept the reality of terrorism as a global phenomenon; however, the peculiar trend of the Nigerian version which subsists on a welter of nebulous demands and masked identities, hacking down innocent Nigerians -women, children and the elderly in an awful scorched earth fashion, and in an obstinate ridicule of dialogue, defies all reason and logic and only summarises a well considered agenda of national destabilisation for a purely selfish political cause. We pointedly finger the opposition.

We recall statements by some politicians, vowing to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on the eve of the 2011 general elections, and therefore adjure Nigerians to rise against this brute ideology of violence from which a tiny clique of the political class intends to benefit ultimately. It is the climax of wickedness only heard of the Lucifer in the distant bosom of hell fire.

Ironically, this is in spite of his humility and his fidelity to the orthodoxy of all democratic norms and values. This is in spite of his proven commitment to the unity and progress of every party of Nigeria irrespective of tribe and religion. Ironically, this is in spite of his proven competence and record delivery of his electoral promises.”