Boko Haram: APC Says Jonathan Has No Liver To Prosecute Sheriff

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the presidency of being

economical with the truth in its response to the widespread condemnation

of President Goodluck Jonathan for hobnobbing with accused Boko Haram

sponsor Ali Modu Sheriff.
In a statement issued in Dubai on Friday by its National Publicity

Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the presidency's stout

defence of Sheriff's presence at President Jonathan's meeting with host

President Idris Deby of Chad, and the fact that the presidency's statement

was coordinated with the one by Sheriff's spokesman, has shown that the

APC is right to have called for the trial of Sheriff and other alleged

Boko Haram sponsors by the International Criminal Court (ICC), instead of

the Nigerian security agencies which are under the Jonathan spell.

It said President Jonathan has not got the liver to investigate and

prosecute the accused, who are his friends, adding: ”How can you prosecute

a person who accompanies you on a high level security meeting to a foreign

head of state?”
”The presidency said the security agencies are investigating Sheriff and

that the President will not interfere, but what message was the President

sending to the security agencies by circulating the picture of the accused

with himself? Is that a subtle message to the security agencies that the

accused is a friend of the President hence he is untouchable?

”The presidency said Sheriff has a long standing business in Chad.

Is the presidency not aware of the memo sent home by the Nigerian Defence

Adviser in Chad concerning Sheriff? Why didn't the presidency tell

Nigerians whether or not the investigation recommended by the Defence

Adviser over Sheriff's alleged sponsorship of Boko Haram was ever carried

out, and if so what was the outcome? APC queried.
It insisted that President Jonathan exhibited palpable indiscretion by

allowing himself to be photographed with an accused terrorism sponsor

while on a foreign trip to rally support for his country's anti-terrorism

efforts.
”It is really irrelevant whether or not the President took Sheriff along

to Chad or he met him there.
What matters and what the entire world saw, through the picture that was

widely circulated, was that Sheriff sat in with President Jonathan and

President Deby at their meeting. That was the clincher.

”The presidency, in its reaction to the global condemnation of the

President's unholy alliance with an alleged Boko Haram sponsor, should

have realized that while President Jonathan has definitely subjected

Nigerians to the most harrowing experience, they are not stupid yet.

”Why would the President even allow Sheriff into the venue of his meeting

with President Deby? Can anyone just go and be sitting with President

Jonathan in a meeting with the Chadian President just because the fellow

happens to be in the Chadian capital at the time?. What happened to

security clearance, protocol etc.?
”Is the presidency telling Nigerians that if President Jonathan were

visiting the South African President Jacob Zuma, and Atiku Abubakar, who

is well known to be a good friend of President Zuma, also happens to be in

Pretoria at the same time, he will simply drive up to the venue and be

part of the meeting?
The truth is that President Jonathan was wrong to have showcased Sheriff,

an accused Boko Haram sponsor, as a face of his Administration while on a

foreign trip to rally support against terrorism, unless of course the

President wanted to send a subtle signal to those investigating the

allegation,” APC said
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