APC Says “Hold Jonathan Responsible If Ebola Spreads”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Nigerians must hold President

Goodluck Jonathan personally responsible if the Ebola Virus Disease

spreads more than it has done in the country, after he failed to stop a

rally in his support in Port Harcourt on Saturday, despite warning from

individuals and groups.
In a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos by its National Publicity

Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said never before has a

President of a country sabotaged his own Administration's policy and

endangered the lives of his compatriots as President Jonathan has done

over the issue of Ebola.
It said the same President who declared a national emergency on Ebola and

advised against large gatherings to prevent the spread of the virus was

the first to flout his own advice by his failure to stop the rally by the

so-called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) in Port Harcourt, a

few days after the virus was detected in the city and at a tiEme that

contact tracing was going on to find all those who may have had contact

with the medical doctor victim of the disease.
”On the altar of political desperation, President Jonathan put the lives

of Nigerians in danger. In order to realize his ambition for re-election,

President Jonathan has shown he is ready to sacrifice as many lives of

Nigerians as possible. There goes the President's statement that his

political ambition is not worth the blood of any
Nigerian. This President simply says what he doesn't mean.

”As we said in our statement of Aug. 28th 2014 calling on President

Jonathan to halt the TAN rallies, especially the one in Port Harcourt,

could anyone guarantee that none of those who have had contact with the

medical doctor who died of the disease will attend the rally? That is why

we are calling on Nigerians to hold the President responsible if Ebola

spreads more than it has in the country,” APC said.

The party said shortly after it made the call for a halt to the TAN

rallies, others, including the NBA and Prof. Itse Sagay, in a clearly

patriotic duty, issued similar calls.
”In fact, the APC in Rivers described such a rally most appropriately as a

'firing squad against the people'. But because he will rather be

re-elected than give a damn over the safety of the same people who voted

him into office, because he will rather transmogrify than transform,

President Jonathan ignored all the calls and allowed the rally to hold.

This is an unprecedented act of political
desperation,” it said.
APC said for those who might try to spin the issue by saying the President

has no control over the organizers of the rally, they should be asked who

the rallies will benefit, whose top officials, including Secretary to the

Government Anyim Pius Anyim, have been attending the rallies and what is

the source of the funding of the gatherings.
”The TAN rallies are government-sanctioned. The TAN rallies are the

Jonathan Administration's cunning way of beating the INEC ban on campaigns

for next year's general elections. The TAN rallies highlight the impunity

of the Jonathan Administration. President Jonathan is the sole

beneficiary. He can stop the rallies today, if only he wants to put the

nation's interest above his own personal interest,” the party said.

The great escape.
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