BY  Samuel  Oyadongha

Yenagoa—A former Security Adviser to the Bayelsa State Government, Chief Richard Kpodo, has described as diversionary and unpatriotic, the call by the opposition on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign on account of the raging Boko Haram insurgency and the abduction of over 200 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

Kpodo, in a statement in Yenagoa, yesterday said Northern leaders should be held responsible for the escalating Boko Haram insurgency as past crises of Odua People’s Congress, OPC, in the South-West, the Bakassi boys insurgency in the South-East and the armed militancy in the South-South regions were solved by the indigenes of the areas.

Kpodo, who served under Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as Senior Special Assistant on Strategy and Policy Monitoring and Interim Chairman to the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, in Bayelsa State, said though the security advisers to President Jonathan may have made mistakes in the initial handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, the issue of rising blame against Jonathan was a deliberate attempt by the Northern leaders to shift blame over their unpatriotic posture against the country.