‘Jonathan Didn’t Exonerate MEND’
From Chuks Okocha in Abuja , 10.06.2010

The President Goodluck Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization has offered explanations to the comments made by the President purportedly exonerating members of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), stating that he was only restating that the culprits should not be allowed to go scot-free.

In a statement released by the Director of Media and Information unit of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organization, Sully Abu, hecondemned what he termed the politicization of a simply matter of crime and its investigation said, “When President Goodluck Jonathan, during a visit to the National Hospital to commiserate with victims of the bombing, said the terrorist act should not merely be ascribed to MEND, what he was simply saying was that nobody should use the name of any organization to cover up a heinous crime. He was neither absolving MEND nor any other group of blame or culpability.”

According to the statement, “The first time the president spoke on the bombings was at the ECOWAS parliament in Abuja. There, he had pointed out that a heinous crime had been committed against the country and innocent lives had been lost. He thus considered it a gratuitous insult for anyone to claim that it was done by MEND, or had anything to do with the Niger Delta.

“This is even more so, he said, since government was in touch with the leadership of MEND (all of whom had renounced violence), and they all agree that the organization had nothing to do with the blasts.” Sully Abu explained.

The spokesman of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organization said that the President sought to put the correct emphasis on the urgent need to get to the bottom of that sordid act of terror and to unearth the perpetrators, because after all, anyone can hide under the umbrella of MEND or any other organization or body for that matter to cover up acts of malfeasance.

Accordingly, he said, “It is high time we did away with the rather lazy approach of explaining away criminal activity by blaming armed robbers or assassins as if such categorization takes away from the severity of the offence. Such an approach has somehow affected the investigation of some high profile murders committed in this country in recent memory including the murder of such prominent citizens as the late Dele Giwa, Alfred Rewane, Bola Ige, Marshal Harry and A. K. Dikibo, amongst others.

On comments by Henry Okah, the spokesman said, “With regards to the claims and vituperations of Henry Okah, a member
of MEND who was granted pardon under the amnesty programme initiated by late President Umaru Musa Yar Adua, the point is if he has committed a crime and is in anyway linked to the bombing of October 1 he will be brought to justice.
No amount of obfuscation and diversionary tactics will prevent the full investigation of that crime against our fatherland on October 1.

”For those who insist that there was a rush to judgment on the part of the President on this matter, it bears restating that what he sought to do was to reassure Nigerians that the perpetrators will be found, a process which could be hampered by a rather casual attribution of the violence to MEND. As President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, it is his bounden duty to speak out in times of danger in order to reassure the populace of the government’s commitment to their safety and wellbeing. This is the practice wherever you have a responsible government that is committed to the welfare of its people.

”Our Campaign Organization stands by the President. The campaign urges him not to be swayed by the loud protestations in certain quarters clearly orchestrated to divert and confuse the real issue: that an act of war was launched against Nigeria on October 1, which claimed the lives of many innocent Nigerians. Its masterminds and perpetrators must be fished out and punished.

”Having said that, the point must be made that those promising to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan, as Alhaji Lawal Kaita openly boasted recently, must also be ready to keep a date with the law. We are after all a country governed by laws, and the laws of treason are very clear in this regard.

”We were all witnesses to the high wire political mischief played in years gone by, all aimed at achieving effortless regime change. We remember how fifth columnists executed searches on the homes of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and others, to achieve predetermined ends. We also recall how, in that epoch, the issue of 53 suitcases was contrived to ease a putsch against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

”Clearly we are on the march again, and the same characters of yesteryears are the game players once again. But this time, Nigerians can not be fooled. Our people remain eternally vigilant, and we call on the security agencies not to hesitate to charge anyone found culpable with the relevant laws of the land.” The Jonathan/Sambo Campaign organization said in the statement defending the President.

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Which one are we to believe now?

too late to cry

Na MEND do am
No be MEND do am
Na ATIKU do am
No be ATIKU na IBB
No be IBB na Okah

13volts:

too late to cry

Na MEND do am
No be MEND do am
Na ATIKU do am
No be ATIKU na IBB
No be IBB na Okah

No be Okah do am
Na MEND do am
No be MEND do am
Na ATIKU do am
No be ATIKU na IBB
No be IBB na Okah

X infinity. Why is it that President JEGA and his team always change their mind

This is the sign of how thing will be if this is not stopped. Na this fluctuations we go live with

Person go get another whiplash after this is over . .  is ever!!

jabbok:

In a statement released  by the Director of Media and Information  unit of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organization, Sully Abu,  hecondemned what he termed the politicization of a simply matter of crime and its investigation said, “When President Goodluck Jonathan, during a visit to the National Hospital to commiserate with victims of the bombing, said the terrorist act should not merely be ascribed to MEND, what he was simply saying was that nobody should use the name of any organization to cover up a heinous crime. He was neither absolving MEND nor any other group of blame or culpability.”

This is coming after your own oga POLITICIZED the incident by bringing Terrorists and areaboys over to Aso Rock to have tea, break bread and sing glory songs with him? jeezz