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Chibok: Buhari’s Supporters Insist Jonathan Confess, Apologise
Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have called on former President Goodluck Jonathan to confess his alleged sins, apologise to the nation and stop what they claim as his grandstanding on his efforts towards the rescue of the Chibok school girls abducted during his administration.
The Buhari supporters under the aegis of the Buhari Media Organisation spoke in reaction to claims made by former British prime minister Dave Cameroon that the Jonathan administration refused British offer for help after the kidnap.
Dr. Jonathan has since disclaimed the assertions of Cameron alleging the former prime minister bore malice against him because he refused to nudge Nigeria towards adopting homosexual marriage.
Responding in a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said history would judge Jonathan for treating governance as a matter of ego, without respect for lives and property, as well as his disservice to Nigeria.
“Nigerians must appreciate the rescue mission embarked upon by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in the last four years. The country was a mess; governance was on auto-pilot with a President who was lukewarm towards his duties.
“The revelation by former Prime Minister Cameron in his book (For the Record) that Jonathan refused British assistance for the rescue of the Chibok girls after they were sighted shows how the country was being managed by an incoherent leadership intent on driving her to either deliberate or irresponsible crash and wreckage.
“Even the late United States Senator John McCain alluded to this when he told CNN, few weeks after the abduction, that if he were the then US President Obama he ‘wouldn’t be waiting for some kind of permission from some guy named Goodluck Jonathan’, in a clear reference to the indecision of the former President on a rescue mission.
“Which sensible President and leader would ever miss such an opportunity to save the lives of his abducted citizens,” the group queried.
It said former President Jonathan simply showed that he was not a patriot, and did not care for the Chibok girls, their traumatised parents, and Nigeria as a whole.
BMO said: “The Jonathan administration simply played politics with the lives of over 200 abducted school girls at a time the world’s focus was on Nigeria
“We recall that the then Chief of Defence Staff, late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh said categorically at a pro-government rally that the military authorities had been able to pinpoint the location of the abducted school girls six weeks after the incident but ruled out military operations to rescue them at the time. Is this not a confirmation of what the former British Prime Minister said?
“The former President clearly made a mockery of serious business of governance and history would not be kind to him in spite of efforts to obfuscate issues with Nigeria’s rejection of gay marriage bill.”
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