The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, lambasted President Goodluck Jonathan for being hypocritical by urging Nigerians not to sow the seeds of discord or hatred saying that the members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were preaching hatred among Nigerians.
The National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who made this known in a statement in Lagos, said that Jonathan should lead by example instead of engaging in mere rhetoric, pointing out that ‘’talk becomes cheap the moment words lose their meanings.’’
Mohammed said that President Jonathan’s exhortations at a Christmas service in Abuja Thursday would have carried weight if the President had acted in such a way that his compatriots would not doubt his sincerity, wondering how the President could admonish others to avoid sowing the seeds of discord and hatred through their utterances when that was ‘’exactly the stock in trade of his political associates, supporters and spokespersons.’’
The statement further read, ‘’Everything that the President’s political associates, supporters and spokespersons have done has been geared toward creating division among Nigerians and sowing the seeds of discord and hatred, and the President is not on record as having ever called them to order.
‘’Recently, Chief Edwin Clark, a die-hard supporter of the President, said glibly that if the opposition has its way it can poison or kill President Jonathan just to take power. No statement could be more absurd and incendiary, yet the President never called him to order.
‘’Another dyed-in-the-wool supporter of the President, Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, said on national television that there will be blood on the streets if President Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015. He also said we will not take any prisoner of war. It will be total battle, but the President never uttered a word to rebuke him.
