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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