While Speaking yesterday at the North East zone of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) rally held at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, President Goodluck Jonathan maintained that insurgency and crimes such as kidnapping and armed robbery were gaining ground because governors of the affected states were failing in their responsibilities.
He said the security challenges in the North-east was the handiwork of illiterate youths who lost hope due to bad leadership of their state governors who failed to send them to school.
“State governors that are saying it is bad leadership should be ashamed. I was a deputy governor and governor where I spent eight years at the state. The first commercial kidnapping took place in Bayelsa. Seventy per cent of the state are swamps; a governor will come and spread issue that it is because of bad leadership. Bad leadership from who? We had security challenges in Bayelsa when I was deputy governor and governor and we handled them. It is not the duty of Federal Government to send children to primary and secondary schools but it is the constitutional right of the Federal Government to make sure children attend tertiary institutions, which we have done.
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