National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday declared that the opposition was sponsoring the current insurgency to destabilise Nigeria and to portray the Goodluck Jonathan administration as a failure. The party said it came to the conclusion because of the peculiar nature of the attacks, killings and targets of the terrorists, who are actually agents of destabilisation and champions of selfish interest. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who added the new twist to the security challenges in the country, said: “We accept the reality of terrorism as a global phenomenon, however, the peculiar trend of the Nigerian version which subsists on a welter of nebulous demands and masked identities, hacking down innocent Nigerians-women, children and the elderly in an awful scorch earth fashion, and in an obstinate ridicule of dialogue, defies all reason and logic and only summarises a well-considered agenda of national destabilisation for a purely selfish political cause. We pointedly finger the opposition.” Metuh in a statement he issued in Abuja yesterday noted that after a careful examination of the trend and character of the spate of insurgency and sectarian violence in the country, the ruling party had come to the conclusion that it was designed to crumble the current administration. The party said the tactics is to distract and detract the President, constrain the successful delivery of his transformation programme so as to portray him as non-performing and finally ridicule his score card when time reckons. Metuh said it was beyond conjecture that the Nigerian version of terrorism is the product of a narrow political persuasion that defies logic and reason. “We recall statements by some politicians, vowing to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on the eve of the 2011 general elections, and therefore adjure Nigerians to rise against this brute ideology of violence from which a tiny clique of the political class intends to benefit ultimately. It is the climax of wickedness only heard of by Lucifer in the distant bosom of hell fire.” The statement further declared that it was clear that President Jonathan was being persecuted for no other reason than being a Nigerian from the minority, arguing that no leader in the history of the country had faced the height of persecution that the President has been subjected to since he assumed office. “Ironically, this is in spite of his humility and his fidelity to the orthodoxy of all democratic norms and values. This is in spite of his proven commitment to the unity and progress of every party of Nigeria, irrespective of tribe and religion. Ironically, this is in spite of his proven competence and record delivery of his electoral promises.” The PDP therefore commended the President for not only effectively containing the insurgency but beating down distractions and detractions to post unprecedented landmark achievements in all sectors of the economy in the last two and half years he has been at the helm of affairs. The party listed some landmark achievements to include the revolutionary excels in the works sector with the dualisation and rehabilitation of major trunk roads across the country in addition to the repair of the Third Mainland Bridge and the commencement of the works on the Second Niger Bridge. The resuscitation of the inland waterways and the railway system which have been abandoned for years and the establishment of Almajiri education system and nine new federal unive rsities across the country. Others, according to the party, include the completion and commissioning of key power stations across the country, the new automobile policy, the revolution in the housing sector with establishment of the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC), the first of its kind in the country, which is tailored to deliver 75,000 houses every year for Nigerians in addition to a million direct and indirect jobs.
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