Saturday 26 January 2013

PDP backs President’s comments on CNN

 by OLUSOLA FABIYI 
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh
The Peoples Democratic Party has thrown its weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments on the Boko Haram insurgency in his interview with the Cable News Network on Wednesday.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Friday, said the President was absolutely right when he declared that the Boko Haram phenomenon was not a product of misrule or poverty but a local terror group.
Metuh said in the statement that the party also agreed with the President that there had been tremendous improvement in power supply in the country under the current dispensation.
Dismissing the insinuation that poverty was the reason behind the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency, Metuh argued that poverty was not a recent phenomenon in the country and therefore could not form the basis of the sudden wave of criminal attacks on innocent people, most of who live within the poverty bracket.
The statement reads, “The President is right and we fully align with him on his position that Boko Haram is not a product of poverty or misrule as some people are suggesting. We agree with him that it is a local terror group.
“There have been successive regimes before this administration but this insurgency increased the same way terrorist activities are escalating in other parts of the world at this time.
“So, it is clear that some people are out to perpetrate acts of terrorism in Nigeria to create a semblance of insecurity, as it obtains in other troubled spots of the world.”
Punch

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