A pro-democracy group, National Democratic Front (NDF), has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being insensitive to hosting political rallies when scores of people were killed due to security challenges in parts of the country.
The group challenged the president to visit the North-east and conduct on-the-spot assessment of the killings instead of attending rallies.
In a statement issued its national coordinator, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, I Minna, the group said the president and the ruling party had been staging jamboree rallies across the country in the last three weeks when the nation was bleeding and innocent lives were being cruelly terminated.
It frowned upon the rallies held at Owerri, Sokoto, Ilorin and Minna, as well as that of Kaduna, complaining that the jamboree-like rallies organised by the party to boost the 2015 ambition of the president were at variance with the killings in the country.
The statement said: “Mr. President and the ruling PDP should stop forthwith all these rallies and unnecessary visits by the president to traditional rulers when innocent children are fell down by the Boko Haram in their sleep. Instead he should visit Yobe, Bornu and Adamawa states with all his Service Chiefs to find lasting solution to the insecurity in the North-east.”
It warned that if Jonathan failed to curtail the insurgents in the North-east, kidnapping in the East and South-south, as well as tribal cleansing in the North- central, it would mobilise Nigerians to stall his 2015 ambition.
“If the President and PDP fail to find solution to the security challenges, NDF will ensure that he is voted out of office at the next polls.”
