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"President Goodluck Jonathan Is An Embarrassment To Nigerians" - APC Spokesman, Lai Mohammed

The All P:rogressive Congress, APC, has a penchant for tearing into the President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration and this is another of such classic cases.

The major opposition party in the country, All Progressives Congress, APC, is never tired in their stringent criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan, seeing every of his actions or inactions, worthy of attack, their recent coming in the wake of the Malala Yousafzai, the 17 years olod Pakistani girl-child education activist's visit to Nigeria and her subsequent request that the President visit the kidnapped Chibok girls' parents and the President agreeing to do so.

The APC, through its Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has come out to say that the President is an embarrassment to Nigeria and to Nigerians for blaming the opposition for his failure visit the traumatized parents untill the young girl girl came in to order him to do so.

In a statement released by Mohammed, the APC said:

President Jonathan, who has already embarrassed himself and the people of Nigeria by his inexplicable failure to visit Chibok since the girls were abducted over 90 days ago, has compounded the embarrassment and insulted Nigerians by waiting for Malala to goad him to meet with the girls’ parents, not in Chibok but in Abuja.

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Fortunately, and to the eternal discomfiture of the Presidency, the Chibok community has said the decision not to meet with President Jonathan in Abuja was theirs and theirs alone.

The parents said they took that decision because their sole reason for coming to Abuja was to meet with Malala, and not the President, who did not invite them anyway.

With this explanation, one would have expected a Presidency that has regard for the truth to immediately retract its earlier panic statement, which it issued to save face, after what was nothing but a Public Relations (PR) gimmick, blew up in its face, and apologise to the opposition and the #BringBackOurGirls group that were unjustly pilloried by them.

Instead, the Presidency has persisted in its distortion of the truth, for which it has now become infamous, even as a new date has been agreed for the meeting. This is unfortunate, condemnable and irresponsible.

If indeed, as the Presidency claimed earlier, that the opposition was behind the refusal by the parents and escaped girls not to see the President, what has then happened to make them change their minds? Has the opposition now asked them to meet with the President?

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Mr. President, your frantic effort to meet with the Chibok parents now is too little too late, and no amount of photo-op will change that. If your handlers had been sincere, they would have told you that the best venue of the meeting is Chibok, not Abuja, where your people tried, but failed, to waylay the parents who came for a meeting with Malala.

Mr. President, you have ceaselessly compared yourself to the great leaders of our time, including U.S President Barack Obama.

But do you think Obama would have refused to visit the parents of these abducted schoolgirls, if the abduction had occurred in the U.S?

Do you think Obama, as commander-in-chief, would have refused to visit his troops in the front line of the anti-terror fight, as you have done?

Do you think, Mr. President, that a band of rogue elements, like Boko Haram, would have restricted Obama’s movement within his own country, as they have done to you? No true and caring President will ever fail to visit the sites of disasters and offer solace to his compatriots.

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