After spending $32 billion on Security, We are still not Safe [APC to Jonathan]

The All Progressives Congress has offered a more detailed rebuttal to President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim on Tuesday that he deserved to be re-elected having achieved so much in four years, claiming the president scored himself highly for ‘phantom achievements’.

The main opposition party said Jonathan’s administration had spent $32 billion on security and defence yet Nigeria is not any safer, with thousands of deaths, 221,000 square kilometres of territory captured by Boko Haram, 650,000 Nigerians internally displaced and also a daily harvest of death from ethno-religious crisis, clashes between pastoralists and farmers, armed robberies and kidnapping.



In a press statement today, the party’s publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said Nigerians “could not wait to sweep away one of the worst governments to have even presided over their nation’s affairs.”

Mohammed said the APC was not surprised that Jonathan failed to “get the usual bounce from such declarations because Nigerians were not the least impressed by the so-called achievements, which have not positively impacted on the lives of the citizens.”

”Mr. President, Nigerians have asked themselves a simple question: Are we better off today than we were before President Jonathan assumed office, and they have unanimously answered in the negative. This is why your declaration failed to resonate, despite the hired crowds you ferried to Abuja,” he said.

Mohammed said Jonathan failed in the areas of insecurity and job creation, which are intertwined.
”Today, after the Jonathan Administration has spent $32 billion on security and defence, Nigeria is not any safer, with thousands of deaths, 221,000 square kilometres of territory captured by Boko Haram, 650,000 Nigerians internally displaced and also a daily harvest of death from ethno-religious crisis, clashes between pastoralists and farmers, armed robberies and kidnapping.

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