All Progressives Congress has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to imitate Chadian President, Idriss Déby who asked Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau to surrender or face death.
In a statement issued in Lagos by the National Publicity Secretary, APC, Lai Mohammed, APC also described the President’s recent comments about Chibko girls as deeply offensive to human sensitivities.
The President during the week said the Chibok girls are still alive, if not Boko Haram will have displayed their bodies if they had been killed.
APC said the President is supposed to offer hope and be the Consoler-in-Chief, not to make statements that will deepen the suffering and sorrow of victims not “not some twisted, melancholic and offensive logic.”
The party noted that Jonathan should emulate Derby who was very presidential in his comments on Shekau by saying, “It is in Abubakar Shekau’s interest to surrender; we know where he is. If he refuses to give himself up, he will suffer the same fate as his comrades.”
While responding to the statement on the Chibok girls, Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode said, “Whilst the majority of Nigerians are overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope by saying that the girls are still alive. Mohammed and the APC are not happy.
“The truth is that they do not want those girls to be found and neither do they care about their welfare or their safety. We say this because this was a man, and a party that complained and protested at the fact that Boko Haram was proscribed by the Federal Government last year.”
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