YOU'RE FINISHED!!! ‘As Jonathan sheds crocodile tears on nation’s division’ - APC

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan was shedding crocodile tears over his lamentation that Nigeria had become more divided along religious and ethnic lines than at any time in the nation’s history.

Its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, noted that there was no point Jonathan being “sanctimonious” about an issue for which he “bears most responsibility.”

“You are the most divisive leader in the history of Nigeria, having ceaselessly exploited the country’s fault lines for political gains,’’ the party said.

The APC alleged that Jonathan was the first leader to have turned the house of worship to a political arena, using the pulpit to make political and policy statements as well as making a show of what should ordinarily be a very personal religious affair.

The party added that the president’s belated lamentation was aimed at pulling the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with a view to extracting undeserved political gains, especially a few weeks before next month’s elections.

The statement said: ‘’Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to pit Christians against Muslims by labelling the country’s main opposition party, the APC, as an Islamic party? Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to portray all adherents of a particular faith as terrorists?

“Not once did this president call his loquacious and sycophantic supporters to order when they were denigrating people of other tribes, calling them unprintable names. Not once did he call his supporters to order when they were threatening to bring the country down, if he is not re-elected.

“President Jonathan led the divisive band by tagging the leaders of a whole people ‘rascals’, just because people dared to protest against his administration’s policies. A man who got a pan-Nigerian mandate turned himself into a tribal leader, running a government that excludes a critical mass of the nation’s demography and pigeon-holing himself into an ethnic cocoon.

“A president, who has undermined the nation’s unity with his actions and utterances, and a president, who has cashed in on all the nation’s fault lines to feather his own political nest definitely lacks the moral authority to preach to anyone about unity. He is the embodiment of divisiveness, hence he has no business being self-righteous.’’

It called on Nigerians to repudiate the divisiveness that was embodied in the president and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), “so that the country’s ‘unity in diversity’ can once again become a reality, rather than a mere saying.”

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