The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on all political office holders from the North-East currently serving under President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately tender their resignation letters en mass, for failing to influence government against what it described as genocide in the region.
The party said it believed that the government has abandoned the region and does not care about the security and safety of the people.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday in Abuja, APC National Vice Chairman, North-East, Babachir David Lawal, accused Jonathan of giving more attention to his re-election bid than to the lives of the people of North-East who are being killed at will by Boko Haram insurgents.
According to him, the Boko Haram insurgents are perpetrating genocide in the region while the government seems to have left the people to their fate, and the indigenes of the region in the Jonathan administration seem unconcerned about what is happening to their own people.
“These are trying times indeed and all the good sons and daughters of the North-East, whatever their current status in the society, must stand up for the region. For if we continue to remain silent, who will speak for our people?
“Our farmlands, schools and all forms of commercial activities have been abandoned, thus rendering our future bleak. Our sons are being massacred daily while our daughters are taken into slavery or married off to depraved, uneducated and evil people who place no value on life.
“And they keep on expanding, winning territories with ease. Just within the last one week alone, towns in Gombe, Adamawa, Yobe and Borno have came under at
