Leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress has compared the Jonathan administration to the Sani Abacha administration basing their comparison on allegations leveled against the sitting president by none other than former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Interim National Publicity secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the comparison in a statement released from Osogbo.
Mohammed said, “There is serious concern over the allegations that the Jonathan administration is training snipers at the same facility where the Abacha killer squad was trained; talks of abuse and misuse of the military and other security apparatus for personal and political interest as well as the reported placing of 1,000 people under a ‘political watch-list.
“The APC is constrained to take the allegations very seriously because it emanated from no less a personality than former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in an open letter he wrote to his fellow party man, President Jonathan, which has now been widely circulated in the traditional and social media.
‘’All Nigerians must be worried by these weighty allegations, coming less than 15 years after the long-suffering people had collectively vowed ‘never again’ to a regime like Abacha’s that sent many innocent souls to their early graves and dispatched many citizens into forced exile for merely holding views that were opposed to that of the late dictator’s government.
‘’We are therefore compelled to call on President Jonathan to urgently address these allegations, which have already sent jitters down the spines of Nigerians, especially those who hold views that are diametrically opposed to the administration’s.
“The allegations cannot and must not be swept under the carpet, otherwise Nigerians will know who to hold responsible if perceived opponents of the administration come to any harm.’’
The APC added that the PDP were now more conscious of the danger that their Party as it is posed to the stability of Nigeria as a country.
It said, “More and more people within the ruling PDP are now coming to terms with the real dangers facing the country under their party which, despite being in power at the centre, since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, has only succeeded in putting the country in reverse gear and is now threatening its fledgling democracy, following its (PDP’s) implosion.”
It added: ‘’We are not concerned by the dirty politics in the PDP and the glaring fact that the behemoth is sinking fast. What bothers us is the impact that the death throes of this rudderless party will have on our fragile polity.”