Poser:Should Goodluck Have Attended PDP Kano Rally And Olubadan's Birthday After Abuja Bomb Blast?

President Goodluck Jonathan at Olubadan's 100th Birthday yesterday

 

 

Condemnations have followed the attendance of the PDP rally in Kano yesterday as well as the 100 years birthday of the Olubadan of Ibadan by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday.

Many people, especially in the opposition have termed President action as insensitive in view of the tragedy that happened on the outskirt of Abuja during which over 100 people were sent to their early graves by a bomb.

Do you think President Goodluck Jonathan should have postponed attending these two events in honour of the dead.

Before answering YES or NO, take time to read the article below concerning a similar action by President Barrack Obama on the day of the Boston Marathon in the USA

 

Obama Maintains Set Schedule Following Boston Marathon Bombings.

 April 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed Tuesday to get to the bottom of the Boston bomb attacks but kept to his previously planned schedule, saying it is important to carry on.

“We mourn the victims,” Obama said at an event on the South Lawn. “We pray for their loved ones.

“We don’t let such cowardly acts get in the way of our lives,” he said, and then went on with a ceremony honoring the winner of this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Obama’s response to the Boston attack reflects an approach developed over five years in the Oval Office, shaped by past experience in handling terrorism and the chaos that follows an attack.

On Monday, he spoke publicly just three hours after the bombs exploded, as opposed to the three days it took after the Christmas Day 2009 attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.

Though he didn’t use the word “terror” to describe the Boston attack on Monday, aides did so within hours. Critical reviews of Obama’s handling of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, focused on whether the president had declared decisively enough in the early hours that the attack was a terrorist one.

This time, Obama spelled out his thinking more explicitly in the early going. On Tuesday morning, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, he said the FBI is investigating the attack “as an act of terrorism.”

“Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror,” he said. “What we don’t yet know, however, is who carried out this attack, or why; whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual.

“It will take time to follow every lead and determine what happened,” he said, “but we will find out. We will find whoever harmed our citizens and we will bring them to justice.”

Americans show who they are in responding to such tragedies, he said, with the acts of “heroism and kindness, and generosity and love” that people displayed Monday.

“We also know this,” he said, ”the American people refuse to be terrorized.”

Afterward, he hosted lunch for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates in his private dining room.

In the afternoon, he joined a crowd of NASCAR fans on the South Lawn of the White House to honor racer Brad Keselowski.

 

Culled from LA Times