The fight to finish between Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan is assuming a frightening scale as agents of both parties seems set for the mother of all battles. In a tersely worded statement, which is a response to an earlier one from the Presidency, the CPC described Jonathan as dangerous and deadly to Nigeria.
They say he has turned the Presidency to a mini Bayelsa State, surrounding himself and taking advise only from people of his Ijaw ethnic group. They described President Jonathan as corrupt and inept in the manner he has so far run the country.
Below is the CPC's response to Jonathan:
"We stand unwaveringly by the statement credited to GMB [General Muhammadu Buhari]," the party said.
Speaking through a press release by its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, the CPC also launched a barrage of counter-accusations against the PDP, describing the President Jonathan's administration as 'the most corrupt' in Nigeria's history.
"On Corruption, the Jonathan administration transcends all others before it! Nigerians are still befuddled by the impeachable show of arbitrariness by the regime in expending N2.67Trillion on fuel subsidy instead of the appropriated N240Billion in the 2011 appropriation act," Mr. Fashakin said.
The CPC also responded in details to some of the accusations made by the PDP on Monday, where the ruling party described Mr. Buhari of being 'blood-thirsty'.
The party Mr. Jonathan is a far more ethnically biased. According to the statement, as Head of State, Mr. Buhari's Minister for Petroleum was Tam David West, "a Kalabari man from Rivers state".
They say Jonathan had failed to act in a similar fashion. "All the appointees as Oil ministers in his two-year reign thus far as President of Nigeria have been Nigerians of Ijaw extraction, like himself."
The CPC also accused Mr. Jonathan of trying in vain to come to the defence of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group from his area that claimed responsibility for the Octber 1, 2010, bombings in Abuja.
"On October 1, 2010, there was a bomb blast during the year's independence anniversary celebrations, with attendant deaths of many Nigerians. Without waiting for any preliminary report from the Security Agencies, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, as President, told a traumatized Nation, 'it is not MEND!'," the CPC said.
CPC also came down hard on the president's spokesperson, Reuben Abati, who it said did not seem to understand the real meaning of Boko Haram as postulated by Mr. Buhari.
"In a jejune, puerile, and very pedestrian communication, the presidential spokesman defined Boko-Haram as 'Western education is sin' and went on to posit the administration's investment in Education.
How awkwardly inane could that be?
"As GMB aptly stated, Boko Haram has three variants, with varying degrees of severity and murderous content: the original Boko-haram that seeks to avenge the extra-judicial killing of its Leader by the Nigeria Police; the Boko Haram that pursues criminality for monetary gains and of course, the Political Boko-haram that is bent on setting the stage for ethno-religious pogrom in the Nigerian nation.
It is the Political Boko Haram, with its extremely lethal content, that the Jonathan-led Federal Government represents," the CPC said.
In order to prove Mr. Buhari's claim that the Jonathan-administration is the real Boko Haram, the CPC outlined a number of instances to buttress the claim thus:
"In January 2012, Dr Goodluck Jonathan told a bewildered nation, still smarting from murderous Bombings, that his government has been infiltrated by Boko Haram.
"In February 2012, a serving PDP senator from Borno South (Mohammed Ali Ndume) was arrested for being a member of Boko Haram.
"In March 2012, Ndume deposed to an affidavit before a Federal High Court wherein he stated that Vice-President Namadi Sambo was aware of his activities with Boko Haram.
"In April 2012, General Andrew Owoeye Azazi, the National Security Adviser, averred that there was indisputable proof that Boko Haram is PDP.
As things stand, President Good-luck Jonathan is the national leader of PDP.
"In April 2012, Henry Okah (while standing trial on Terrorism charges) deposed to an affidavit before a South African court that President Goodluck Jonathan was the sponsor of the October 1, 2010 bombing at Eagle square. It is on record that as governor of a Niger-Delta state, Dr Goodluck Jonathan (together with his brother governors) had used the MEND to command the attention of the Nigerian state".
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