The Northeast Democratic Network (NDN) has claimed that Nigerian authorities have no basis for stopping elections in the affected by insurgency North-East states, since similar attacks in Abuja didn’t stop President Goodluck Jonathan and other officials from going to Kano the next day and dancing there.
It would be recalled that the bloodiest attack in Abuja history took place on Monday at Nyanya bus station and left scores of people dead and hundreds injured.
NDN coordinator Muazu Ibrahim Misau commented on the statement by Information Minister Labaran Maku, who explained that the president had gone ahead with the planned rally just to show insurgents that their deadly activities wouldn’t hold back the country.
"Labaran Maku finally thought like our Governors in the northeast who have repeatedly argued that should we exclude any part of Nigeria from the 2015 elections on account of Boko Haram, it means the sect can declare victory.
"The fact that President Jonathan chose to go ahead to Kano and dance to the music of Sani Danja in merriment and high spirit while hundreds of survivors of Abuja attacks painfully suffer on sick beds, just to prove a point to Boko Haram is even a lesser reason compared to the constitutional need for elections in every part of Nigeria."
Thus they urged officials not to exclude any part of Nigeria from the upcoming elections, "unless if both the President and Maku merely showed insensitivity and deceived Nigerians by claiming they all went to Kano to sing and dance mainly advance political interests at the expense of highly traumatised Nigerians in Abuja and other parts of the country."
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