By Ben AgandeAbuja —

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that the #Bring Back Jonathan 2015 signs and banners around Abuja which he and
many Nigerians be brought down immediately.
This came as All Progressives Congress, APC, in its reaction, described the President’s directive as a good first step.

The #BringBack Jonathan 2015 hash tag has provoked national and international outrage as it is seen as unfair imitation of the popular #BringBackOurGirls which was launched by some activists to campaign for the release of the over 200
girls abducted at Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram.
But a statement yesterday by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, read:
“President Jonathan wholly shares the widely expressed view that the signs which were put up without his knowledge or approval are a highly insensitive parody of the #BringBackOur Girls hash tag.
“While President Jonathan appreciates the enthusiastic show of support for his administration by a broad range of stakeholders, he condemns the #Bring Back Jonathan 2015 signs which appear
to make light of the very serious national and global concern for the abducted Chibok girls.
“The President assures all Nigerians and the international community that his administration remains fully engaged with efforts to rescue the abducted girls and that he will not knowingly promote any actions that will fly in the face of the
seriousness of their plight and the anguish of their families.”

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as a good first step the order by President Goodluck Jonathan for the removal of the #BringBackJonathan, which is a mockery of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag that had helped to call global attention to the fate of the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram almost five months ago and remained in captivity.
In a statement in London, yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party, however, said the President made a mockery of his administration and his country by waiting for an international condemnation of the shameless and brazen usurpation of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag before
issuing the directive for it to stop.
“Had the US newspaper, Washington Post, not written a stinging editorial skewing the Jonathan Administration for appropriating the BringBackOurGirls hash tag for his re-election, the Administration would have continued its brazenness without regards to the feelings of the parents of the girls or
indeed the Nigerian people.
“Again, the administration has waited for a global opprobrium before doing what is right. Recall that it took an international media campaign before the Jonathan administration acknowledged, after all of 19 days, that the Chibok girls
were missing in the first instance.
“Recall also that it took a 17-year-old, Yousafzai Malala, to make the President realise that he should meet with the parents of the girls, even if he eventually insulted the grieving parents by inviting them to Abuja instead of going to visit them in their abode? It is important that we don’t make a mockery of our own people, so that we don’t become objects of international mockery,’’ it said.

APC said belated as the President’s directive on #BringBackJonathan hash tag was, it was a good first step that
must be quickly followed by another directive ordering the so-called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, to immediately stop its rallies that have offended the sensibilities and intelligence of Nigerians.
The party said the noisy and sycophantic rallies being held across the nation, ostensibly to collect signatures from Nigerians urging President Jonathan to seek re-election, contrast with the challenges currently facing the nation, which is being dismembered town by town by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
‘’Nigeria is in a state of war, a state of anarchy, a state of loss never witnessed since the end of the unfortunate civil war in 1970. Terrorists are capturing towns after towns and hoisting their flags over the seized territories, Our troops are engaged in an epic battle to ward off the terrorists. Our people are
being daily slaughtered by the marauding terrorists. And Ebola is very much here with us.
‘’Therefore, this cannot be the time for festivities and celebrations, the type being orchestrated by the government under the TAN banner. The rallies insult the troops who are battling Boko Haram. The rallies insult Nigerians who are fervently praying for the unity of the nation in the face of the madness by the marauders. The rallies offend the sensibilities of the families of our citizens who are being mowed down
daily by Boko Haram. They must stop forthwith,’’ it said.
APC wondered whether the organisers of the rallies and those who have been mocking the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners know that Nigerians are not fools, hence can see the deceit, the
callousness and the insensitivity of the Jonathan administration in secretly funding the rallies and the anti- BringBackOurGirls campaigns.


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I actually saw this coming, immediately Reuben Abati dismissed it,I knew lai Mohammed wldnt spare him an inch whether knowingly or unknowingly.

stupi.d set of people. Bird of a feather.
mtchewwww