Nigeria: Insurgency - Jonathan, PDP Seeking Political Gains, Says APC

18 April 2014

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicizing Nigeria's security by engaging in outright deception to exclude APC Governors from the meeting the President himself had called for Thursday to discuss the security situation in the country.

In a statement in Lagos, Friday, by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said after deliberately excluding the Governors from the meeting, the presidency and the PDP then engaged in outright disinformation and distortion of facts to make it look as if the APC Governors deliberately boycotted the meeting, apparently in an effort to make political gain from the whole issue.

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