Former Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had been ordered back into the elections for head-of-state by the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Commission. He is seeking the PDP nomination for 2011.
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Tuesday, 04 January 2011 00:00
Fidelis Mac-Leva
Nigeria Daily Trust
Former Vice President and presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has alerted Nigerians on what he termed “President Goodluck Jonathan’s heightening desperation of making his political rivals the scapegoats of the latest bombings in Jos and Abuja. In a statement by his campaign organization in Abuja yesterday, Atiku accused Jonathan of inciting the public against them through the administration’s paid agents to link Atiku’s recent comments to the latest bomb blasts.
According to the statement, newspaper adverts by the President’s agents are already making insinuations of Atiku’s alleged connection with the violent incidents.
While condemning violence in any form, however, the former vice president observed that President Jonathan is taking advantage of national grief to hang the responsibility for the terrorist incidents on the necks of main political rivals such as himself (Atiku).
“It is unhelpful neither to the security agencies nor for national security for President Jonathan to jump the gun of investigations and seek to make political gains out of an uncomfortable incident that has caused grief to many Nigerians,” the statement added.
According to the statement, the bomb blasts are a national tragedy and every concerned Nigerian, including those in government, have a responsibility to apprehend the wicked and ungodly culprits.
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