“Stop singing war songs,” Jonathan, PDP tell Buhari

The President, Goodluck Jonathan and his political party, the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] today reacted over a statement credited to the Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] Presidential Candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari that there may be war if PDP remain in power beyond 2015. In the statement, Buhari noted that the federal government headed by Jonathan was the major reason why the nation is facing insecurity challenges. He described the federal government as Boko Haram to the poor masses. But, the President has warned the former military head of state to stop singing war song in the country, describing the statement as unfortunate and sad. He noted that Buhari’s statement has proved to the whole world that the elder statesman wanted the Northern region to separate from other regions. In a statement released by
his media aide, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan recalled that during the last general election in 2011, CPC presidential candidate only campaign vibrantly in the northern region. He also faulted Gen. Buhari for limiting his comments on national issues to only one part of the country. Acocording to the statement “The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unfortunate statements in the media made by former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in which he allegedly predicted bloodshed in 2015 and labelled the Federal Government led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as “the biggest Boko Haram”. “But perhaps the most unfortunate part of the statement was the portion in which Buhari said that, “Since the leaders now don’t listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the north can do. “We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. “We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El’Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” and that Buhari’s “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.” Who can know Buhari better than his own political associate? “Come to think of it, as the CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 election, how many states in the Federation did he visit to campaign for votes? Buhari never bothered to campaign in the southern part of the country and consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians. “As the results revealed, Nigerians will never vote for anyone who wants to divide the country. Is Buhari going to continue to be a sectional leader?The Federal Government led by President Jonathan is not Boko Haram. Boko Haram means Western Education is sin. “That being the case, one wonders how a government that devoted the largest sectoral allocation in the 2012 budget to education could be said to be Boko Haram. PDP described Buhari as a blood thirsty politician who always pray for bloodshed in the country. Speaking at a press conference, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh accused Buhari of provocation, saying the CPC presidential candidate was “inciting Nigerians to slaughter fellow Nigerians as he did sequel to the 2011 general elections.” Metuh said while the PDP cherishes freedom of speech, assembly and association, such freedom, he said, goes with immense responsibilities. “We condemn in no uncertain terms this shameful call for the spill of blood of innocent Nigerians to acquire political power