APC blasts Jonathan for being more interested in celebrating than mourning dead students

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has lampooned President Goodluck Jonathan over his nationwide broadcast on Wednesday.

The party, in a statement on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, wondered why Jonathan devoted the national broadcast to the centenary celebration and not the gruesome murder of over 40 school children in Yobe State.
The party said Jonathan’s action was a wrong signal sent to the world about the value placed on human and children lives by the Nigerian government.


It tagged jonathan’s address as insensitive, misplaced, and an embarrassment to the people of Nigeria.
According to the party, “Even as the nation is still counting the death toll from Monday night’s senseless and gruesome murder of our children, and the ceaseless killings of innocent civilians, the President has already switched into a celebratory mood, dwelling on the money-wasting centenary-celebrations instead of leading a clearly distraught nation in mourning.

 “Nothing better illustrates the fact that the President showed more concern about the centenary celebrations than the calamity that befell the nation than the mention, in only about three paragraphs, of the tragedy in a speech that spanned over 40 paragraphs. “This is very sad indeed, considering that President Jonathan is the head of a government that has failed woefully in ensuring the welfare and security of Nigerians, especially those of our children, which is the very reason for the existence of any government.”

The APC said, now that the President had goofed again, he should quickly make amends by visiting the scene of the tragedy to empathise with the families of the victims as well as the government and people of the state.