NDLF Calls On President Goodluck Jonathan To ‘Step-Up Or Quit’
In a statement released in New York and signed by its Executive Director, Mr. Bukola Oreofe, the group charged that the Jonathan administration has demonstrated gross ineptitude in matters of state, including on Boko Haram, and that he should either step up or quit office in order to prevent country-wide imminent chaos.
The NDLF condemned the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram sect and also lamented the glaring inability of the government to stop the activities of the gang.
“We condemn the activities of Boko Haram which has its guns and bombs on defenceless, unarmed poor citizens including women and children and also placing a section of the country under siege,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, the Jonathan administration has failed in its fundamental duty of protecting life and property of the citizens. Despite the trillions of naira purportedly spent on security and combating the menace of this murderous group, what we have seen is the widening area of control, increase in scale and depth of their murderous activities while we have a Commander-in-Chief who wears this toga of office with demonstrable incompetence."
Comparing the response of the American government to terrorism and the Nigerian government to Boko Haram, NDLF noted: "The terrorist group has killed more than 7,000 Nigerians, a figure higher than the number of people killed on September 11th in New York by Al'Qaeda on which basis the United States declared two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No American president would survive the outrage of the people if a section of the United States is under the control of a terrorist group and American citizens are wasted by the day as we helplessly watch in Nigeria."
Questioning Mr. Jonathan’s priorities, NDLF said, "In the midst of Nigerians' agony, maiming and killing at the Nyanya car park, and the abduction of over 100 young innocent female kids in a school in Borno, the president found it expedient to attend political rallies thus showing a leader who is stupefyingly out-of-touch and a display of a horrible sense of judgement. We are worried that if the President cannot make the right call on a simple issue such as when to attend a political gathering where he was reported singing and dancing right after the bombing, how does he make the right judgment on complex matters of the state including the scourge of Boko Haram and its sponsors, building infrastructure across the country and ability to provide electricity?"
The group admonished Nigerians to consider Jonathan’s a failed leadership if the terrorist group is able to continue to kill Nigerians under his watch despite his recurrent failed promises on when Boko Haram would become a thing of the past.
“It is reprehensible that Nigerian government officials and their families at the federal and state levels are protected in their offices and homes by security agencies while the masses are left to the fangs and devoured in thousands by a blood thirsty terrorist group," the statement said.
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