President Goodluck Jonathan has described as “unfortunate, saddening and insensitive” the statement by National Legal Adviser to Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Abubakar Malami, justifying the post-election killings in the North.

Reacting to the position by Malami that the desire of Jonathan to win the Presidency by all means necessitated the killings, the Presidency said the implication of such assertion was that the killings were carried out by CPC supporters.Speaking through his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, the President said the allegation of rigging only started when the party noticed it was losing the election.

"This attempt by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to justify the unfortunate carnage and blood letting is vexatious in the extreme. It amounts to rubbing salt on the raw wounds of families who lost dear ones, and those who were maimed and lost valuable property to the carnage.

"It also amounts to an open admission that the party’s supporters were indeed behind the violence, and that the party may well have planned it all," he said.

He dismissed as “disingenuous” the comparison of what happened in South-west in 1965 with what happened in some Northern states as the killings took place where CPC won and Jonathan lost, pointing out that Malami deliberately ignored such facts

"It is on record that the election results were collated peacefully at polling unit, ward, local government and state levels without incident in those areas, and that it was at the level of national collation when it became obvious that the CPC had lost woefully that all hell broke loose.

"Obviously therefore, the riots couldn’t have been as a result of the conduct of the presidential elections in those areas where the bulk of the killings took place. It is thus extremely shocking that a political party, rather than condemn the killings, justifies them and worse still, with examples that just don’t fit. These blood cuddling murders, even of our innocent youth corpers that CPC today tried to justify, are even more disturbing because President Jonathan provided a level playing field for a free and fair democratic contest.

"This has been acknowledged by the world at large. This was acknowledged by the leadership of the CPC even in the run up to the elections. It is therefore hard to imagine what purpose these carefully choreographed riots were meant to achieve beyond an attack on those who were believed to have voted against the CPC candidate, and the Youth Corpers who were “guilty” of supervising the process.

"This can only be the reason why even All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, stalwarts like Alhaji Bashir Tofa were attacked and his home and cars razed. Even the Kano Local Government revenue office was torched, yet that is an ANPP administration. Neither did the rioters spare our revered traditional rulers, as they attempted to burn down the palaces of emirs they believed did not support their candidate openly enough.

"The CPC’s justification of murder and arson must be condemned by all. It is wicked, callous and insensitive. Nigeria is a democracy, and a country of laws. It is not a jungle ruled by whim and caprice. Nigeria is not CPC’s boot camp," he concluded

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cpcs-insensitive-over-stand-on-killings-says-jonathan/91157/

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President Goodluck Jonathan has described as “unfortunate, saddening and insensitive” the statement by National Legal Adviser to Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Abubakar Malami, justifying the post-election killings in the North.

Reacting to the position by Malami that the desire of Jonathan to win the Presidency by all means necessitated the killings, the Presidency said the implication of such assertion was that the killings were carried out by CPC supporters.Speaking through his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, the President said the allegation of rigging only started when the party noticed it was losing the election.

"This attempt by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to justify the unfortunate carnage and blood letting is vexatious in the extreme. It amounts to rubbing salt on the raw wounds of families who lost dear ones, and those who were maimed and lost valuable property to the carnage.

"It also amounts to an open admission that the party’s supporters were indeed behind the violence, and that the party may well have planned it all," he said.

He dismissed as “disingenuous” the comparison of what happened in South-west in 1965 with what happened in some Northern states as the killings took place where CPC won and Jonathan lost, pointing out that Malami deliberately ignored such facts

"It is on record that the election results were collated peacefully at polling unit, ward, local government and state levels without incident in those areas, and that it was at the level of national collation when it became obvious that the CPC had lost woefully that all hell broke loose.

"Obviously therefore, the riots couldn’t have been as a result of the conduct of the presidential elections in those areas where the bulk of the killings took place. It is thus extremely shocking that a political party, rather than condemn the killings, justifies them and worse still, with examples that just don’t fit. These blood cuddling murders, even of our innocent youth corpers that CPC today tried to justify, are even more disturbing because President Jonathan provided a level playing field for a free and fair democratic contest.

"This has been acknowledged by the world at large. This was acknowledged by the leadership of the CPC even in the run up to the elections. It is therefore hard to imagine what purpose these carefully choreographed riots were meant to achieve beyond an attack on those who were believed to have voted against the CPC candidate, and the Youth Corpers who were “guilty” of supervising the process.

"This can only be the reason why even All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, stalwarts like Alhaji Bashir Tofa were attacked and his home and cars razed. Even the Kano Local Government revenue office was torched, yet that is an ANPP administration. Neither did the rioters spare our revered traditional rulers, as they attempted to burn down the palaces of emirs they believed did not support their candidate openly enough.

"The CPC’s justification of murder and arson must be condemned by all. It is wicked, callous and insensitive. Nigeria is a democracy, and a country of laws. It is not a jungle ruled by whim and caprice. Nigeria is not CPC’s boot camp," he concluded

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cpcs-insensitive-over-stand-on-killings-says-jonathan/91157/

Pot calling kettle black, what of the millions of Nigerians that are impoverished and killed everyday as a result of your greed and mismanagement? I do not support violence or the CPC's action but GEJ has no right to comment on the issue or claim sainthood. . . rubbish