Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta

The Muslim Rights Concern,MURIC has called on the President of Nigeria,Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to tender his resignation letter and leave office over the incessant insecurity in the country.

The group was reacting to the bomb blast that occurred yesterday in a school in Potiskum, Yobe State,where 47 students were reportedly died and another 79 were injured.

In a release Tuesday morning which was signed by the Director of the group, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the group described the incident as senseless and barbaric.

The attack has been widely blamed on the Boko Haram insurgents.

“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) strongly condemns this cowardly, senseless and barbaric attack on innocent school children. Our hearts go to the families of the dead and wounded and we pray that Almighty Allah will give them succour in these trying moments.

“There is no doubt in our mind that the Federal Government has not only grown senile but also become bemused on the issue of tackling terrorism. It is our considered opinion that the lack-lustre approach of President Jonathan to security matters led to the deterioration of the situation in the North East.

“Or is it not embarrassing enough that the president and his team remained cynical for more than a week after the abduction of more than 200 school girls? 211 days after the disappearance of the girls, FG remains clueless. To cap the edifice, the man at the helm of affairs is warming up today to declare for a second term in office, to beat his chest over his phantom achievements, to jubilate, to sing and dance over the dead and mutilated bodies of another 47 school children, mowed down in their prime,” the statement reads in part.

MURIC,however concluded by calling on Mr President to urgently throw in the towel,to save the country from further international embarrassment, “In the face of this Kilimanjaro-height mountain of evidence of gross ineptitude and crass nonchalance, MURIC is constrained to ask the captain of the Nigerian ship of state, “Mr. President, when are you going to resign?,” MURIC submitted.