Civil rights groups, opposition parties, the Trade Union Congress and eminent Nigerians on Friday took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan over his overseas trips.
The groups, including the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the Campaign for Democracy, warned the President against following in the footsteps of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
They said that Jonathan’s overseas trips were becoming too frequent and counter-productive.
The President, who arrived from Brazil on June 22, where he attended the UN Earth Summit, left for Belgium on Wednesday for the Summit of the World Customs Organisation.
Opposition parties had last week criticised the President’s trip to Brazil amid bombings and reprisals in Kaduna State and gun attacks in Yobe State.
But the President on Sunday dismissed the criticisms, saying he had no regret travelling to Brazil.
He had said, “One of the tactics of terrorists is to strangle government. If they hear that the President of Nigeria, the Vice-President of Nigeria wanted to travel but they couldn’t travel because they struck, they are going to celebrate it.”
Source; trends.com.ng
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