Jonathan can't end Boko Haram, they will continue if he returns —Governor Okorocha

This is what you get if a President is not assertive and his government uses kid gloves on terrorists.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that Boko Haram insurgency would not end if President Goodluck Jonathan gets returned as Nigeria’s leader in the 2015 general elections.

Okorocha made the declaration in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during a visit to the state’s secretariat of the APC with his team to woo delegates to back him for the party’s presidential ticket.

He said President Goodluck Jonathan had proved incapable of handling the Boko Haram insurgency, and that the terrorists threat was becoming worse than the Nigerian civil war. He accused officials of the Jonathan administration of using the anti-insurgency campaign as a “commercial business like buying and selling.”

The governor said, “If President Jonathan wins the forthcoming election Boko Haram would never stop and if PDP has what it takes to stop this carnage they would have done it a long time ago.”

He said the officials benefiting did not want the insurgency to stop because they were making money from the crisis through supplies of arms and other gadgets to prosecute the war against Boko Haram.

The governor maintained that it would be difficult for the present administration to fight if its still holdup to power in 2015, stressing that some people have already been making millions out of it.

Governor Okorocha also blamed the PDP for the continued existence of the dreaded Islamist group whose attacks have claimed more than 30,000 lives. The APC presidential candidate accused the PDP of being “corrupt and incapable” of leading the country.

He added that Nigeria is in a turbulent period as a result of poverty, injustice and impunity orchestrated by Jonathan’s administration. He said Nigeria was already in a state of war and that things might become worse in 2015 if Mr. Jonathan emerges as the president. He stressed that Northerners would not take it easy with Southerners in the country.

On his chances as APC presidential aspirant, Okorocha said, “If you put Jonathan and me together in the election, I will defeat him in all the states of the federation.”