VINDICATION: Below you have the excerpt of the report of Sheikh Ahmed Lemu panel, absolving General Muhammadu Buhari of any blame during their investigation into the post-election violence of 2011 It would be recalled that the 23-member Lemu committee on the post-election violence, which was set up by President Goodluck Jonathan on May 11, 2011, had while submitting its report on November 9, 2011 said, “Provocative utterances by many individuals and the widespread charge by prominent politicians, including the CPC presidential candidate, to the electorate ‘to guard their votes’ appeared to have been misconstrued by many voters to include recourse to violence, which they did. “However, a long interactive session was held between the CPC presidential candidate and a five-member delegation of the panel, led by the chairman, in the office of the CPC presidential candidate in Kaduna on September 14, 2011. It was discovered that the he himself was a victim of the violence and of the destruction of his property, the photographs of which were given to the said delegation.” On the cause of the crisis, panel said, “The first and probably most important cause is the failure on the part of the previous successive regimes since the military handover of power in 1999 to implement the recommendations of various committees, commissions and panels that had taken place in our nation. That failure facilitated the wide spread sense of impunity in the culprits and perpetrators of crimes and violence in the Nigerian society.” “The second major cause of the recent electoral violence was the existing widespread desire for change as a result of frustration and disappointment of many members of the general public regarding the inability of the successive past regimes to solve the problems of electricity power failure nationwide, deplorable state of Federal Government roads throughout the nation, bribery and corruption, which have virtually been legitimised in all affairs of our nation.” CONVERSELY: I wonder atimes how Olisa Metuh(PDP National Publicity Secretary) rationalizes in every given situation and his thought process in resolving issues. He was quoted recently in an interview that the utterances and body language of some APC leaders had given it away as the face behind the mask of insurgency in parts of the country. This is intellectual laziness of the highest order and the opposition APC will dismiss the claims by PDP and its mouthpiece Olisa Metuh as being evasive, its just a mere confirmation that the ruling party’s maladministration is behind the unfortunate happenings in the country. By harping on the alleged comments of opposition members PDP was only demonstrating its lack of sustainable proof for all its spurious allegations
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:12:18 +0000