The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to show leadership by example by calling his aides who indulge in making inflammatory comments that could cause political fire to order.
The party in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Alh Lai Mohammed, said President Jonathan’s exhortations at a Christmas service in Abuja on Thursday would have made more impact if the president had ever made the move to lead my example.
APC said, the president lacks the moral rectitude to admonish others to avoid sowing the seed of discord and hatred through their utterances when the stock in trade of his political associates, supporters and spokespersons is muddling of opposition.
He wondered how the President could admonish others to avoid sowing the seeds of discord and hatred through their utterances when that is exactly the stock in trade of his political associates, supporters and spokespersons.
‘’Everything that the President’s political associates, supporters and spokespersons have done has been geared toward creating division among Nigerians and sowing the seeds of discord and hatred, and the President is not on record as having ever called them to order.
‘’Recently, Chief Edwin Clark, a die-hard supporter of the President, said glibly that if the opposition has its way it can poison or kill President Jonathan just to take power. No statement could be more absurd and volatile, yet the President never called him to order.
‘’Another dyed-in-the-wool supporter of the President, Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, said on national television that there will be blood on the streets if President Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015. He also said ‘we will not take any prisoner of war. It will be total battle’, but the President never uttered a word in his rebuke.
‘’Since President Jonathan’s main opponent in the 2015 elections, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, emerged, his party members and spokesmen have been falling over themselves to pour invectives on him and his party, the APC. The National Secretary of the President’s party, Wale Oladipo, called the former head of state a ‘semi-literate jackboot’, Doyin Okupe lambasted Gen. Buhari for not stealing money during his many public appointments while PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh issued his most jejune statement to date just to pillory the APC and its leaders.