The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown it’s weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan for his “forthrightness” on national issues, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, in his interview with CNN on Wednesday.
The party, in a statement by it’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the president was absolutely right when he declared that the Boko Haram phenomenon was not a product of misrule or poverty but a local terror group.
It also agreed with the president that there has been tremendous improvement in power supply in the country under the current dispensation. Dismissing the insinuation that poverty is the reason behind the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency, the PDP argued that poverty is not a recent phenomenon in the country and therefore could not form the basis of the sudden wave of criminal attacks on innocent victims, most of whom live within the poverty bracket. “The President is right and we fully align with him on his position that Boko Haram is not a product of poverty or misrule as some people are suggesting.
We agree with him that it is a local terror group. “There have been successive regimes before this administration but this insurgency increased the same way terrorist activities are escalating in other parts of the world at this time.
So, it is clear that some people are out to perpetrate acts of terrorism in Nigeria to create a semblance of insecurity as it obtains in other troubled spots of the world”, the party said. The PDP also said it believes in the efforts by the administration to ensure the security and welfare of Nigerians in line with its manifesto and mandate.
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