Boko Haram ‘God’s punishment on Nigeria’

Chinwoke Mbadinuju, former governor of Anambra‎ state, has described Boko Haram insurgency as God’s punishment on Nigeria.

Speaking on Monday in Abuja while announcing his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP0 to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mbadinuju said the insurgency would not abate until the country embraces justice.

“I believe Boko Haram is part of God’s judgment upon our country,” he said.

“The insurgency will not abate until we embrace justice in the land. Sodom and Gomorrah may soon be child’s play if care is not taken, and it is for this reason that we know now that injustice begat corruption no matter how we paint it.”

The former Anambra governor stated that he was dumping the PDP because of the injustices in the party.

On defecting to APC, he said: “It is necessary to join the APC now because it is the right thing to do. While the APC has proved itself a promising party of present and future, we can all see glaringly that everything good about the PDP has since vanished.

“The PDP became an unjust and unfair political party with no truth in its mouth, no compassion in its heart, no sincerity in its purpose and its action always intrinsically self-serving and deceitful.

“In spite of the fact that as governor of Anambra state, I did my utmost best to improve the lot of our people in a spate of four years, against a tremendous but utterly needless opposition by members of the party in the state in collaboration with the presidency in Abuja, I was the only serving governor that the PDP unjustly denied its ticket for a second term.

“The party behaved as if it never wronged me nor wronged the vast population of Anambrarians whose lives I have touched while superintending the state as governor. Together with our supporters, we were ignored and the government at the centre operated and still operates as if PDP members never existed in Anambra state.

“Whosoever the government patronised turned out to be dishonest or turned into a mediocre, thus making dishonesty and mediocrity take the centre-stage of government and politics in the country. We painfully endured it for long, hoping that with the leadership things would also change. But from Obasanjo to Yar’ adua and to Jonathan, nothing changed; if anything the situation kept getting worse and worse.”

Mbadinuju further stated that his decision to join the APC was informed by the need to get the country out of its present “quagmire”.

‎”Obviously, things cannot continue like that, lest society collapses. It is therefore the responsibility, nay duty, of all God-fearing citizens and men of good standing in our country to do something so as to get us out of the present national quagmire,” he stated.

He added that he was giving his “unflinching support” to the candidature of Muhammadu Buhari and called on all Nigerians to vote for the APC in the 2015 general election.