The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the People Democratic Party (PDP) government was not sincere in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency as most Nigerians were made to believe.
It said it was evident in the way the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government sidelined the opposition party in the fight against the insurgents.
In another development, the party has scheduled to hold its National Convention in Abuja on June 13 and 14, this year.
The party, in a communiqué issued at the end of its 10th meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC), yesterday, in Abuja, stressed that the federal government was not sincere in the fight against Boko Haram and search for abducted girls.
It said: “We make bold to say that the federal government has been very insincere in its persistent call for national unity to combat the despicable Boko Haram sect.
“This has been manifest, perhaps more than at any other time, since the tragic abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok over a month ago. Up to this moment, the federal government has yet to reach out to the APC, the main opposition party, on how to forge a common front against this despicable terror group, despite our incessant efforts to reach out to the government.”
It wondered that the federal government that had been calling on the international community for assistance had not deemed it fit to carry the party along in the fight, considering that fact the APC controlled the three trouble states.
“A party that controls 16 out of 36 states and has over 40 Senators and over 150 members in the House of Representatives is too big to be ignored at a critical time like this in the life of our nation. A party that controls the three hardest-hit states by the Boko Haram insurgency cannot be excluded from any serious effort to tackle the insurgency.”
It, therefore, called on the government to stop politicising the fight against Boko Haram and to show sincerity of purpose in its call for a national front to confront the sect.