The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday said the face-off between the National Security Adviser (NSA), General Andrew Azazi, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the cause of Boko Haram crisis is a national embarrassment.
National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday in a statement that “we have said it several times that the PDP and the government it controls at the centre are clueless, confused and totally incapable of piloting the affairs of this nation.
Is there any better evidence of this cluelessness than what Nigerians are witnessing now?
“It does not matter how much the President tries to engage in damage control over the statement credited to his NSA, or the ever-so knee-jerk and poorly-thought-out reaction of the sinking behemoth called the PDP, the reality is that the NSA’s shocking comments reflect the thinking in the highest echelon of the Jonathan administration, that the crooked politics of the PDP is behind the Boko Haram crisis, and that it has escalated because a son of the South-South is sitting in Aso Rock.”
The opposition party said that “with this pedestrian analysis of the crisis that predates the Jonathan administration (Boko Haram leader was killed extra-judicially during the Yar’adua years, triggering a wave of
revenge attacks that have now escalated), is it any wonder that the PDP federal government has been shooting the breeze, so to say, in trying to tackle the crisis? Can a disease that can’t be correctly diagnosed be managed or cured?”
