Answer Obasanjo And Stop Ranting, MURIC Challenges President GEJ

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to reply the letter addressed to him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently and stop ranting.

In a statement sent to SaharaReporters today by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, MURIC asserted that Obasanjo's 18-page letter raised grave concerns over some very serious national issues.

"Most prominent among the issues raised in Obasanjo's monumental missive are the allegation that the president is destroying the party; that he is currently training 1,000 snipers to deal with opposition figures; that the president is not sincere about the war on corruption and that the president has maintained a conspiratorial silence each time his clansmen threatened the rest of Nigeria."

It called on Mr. Jonathan to answer the letter rather than taking shelter in the bosom of boot-lickers and court-jesters.

"Is President Jonathan waiting for angels to bring him answers from heaven?" MURUC asked. "The issues raised are too fundamental to be brushed aside. They have to do with the core principles of democracy: probity, accountability, justice, fairplay and equal rights. They have to do with the welfare of the Nigerian people and how to bring food to the common man's table. We are talking of the security of lives and properties and the president of this country who has been accused of training professional assassins keeps mute.

How can there be security when the president himself becomes a threat? The chief security officer becomes the major threat to security of lives. It is unheard of. The president must break the ice. Nigerians are running out of patience to hear the president's defence." The group said it does not see why it should take Jonathan a whole projected second term (2015 - 2019) to answer the "tsunami-igniting" allegations leveled against him by a former head of state who should know. It also waded into the NNPC/CBN squabble, rejecting the NNPC's lame explanation that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not know the procedure for tracking Nigeria's oil money.

-naij,com