APC tells N’ Assembly: Impeach Jonathan now

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The All Progressives Congress has called on the National Assembly to immediately commence the process of impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan for alleged gross misconduct.It  said  in a statement on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that Jonathan’s impeachment  would  save Nigeria from imminent collapse.But the Presidency warned the APC and others, who it said were  bent on plunging the nation into political instability,  to be ready for the consequences of treasonable action.The opposition party,  however, said it  made the  call with a high sense of responsibility and   strong belief that the impeachment of the President was a legitimate constitutional option available to the National Assembly not only to protect the nation’s democracy, but  to ensure its  unity.It explained that  it based  the  call for Jonathan’s impeachment on the  dangerous drifting of the country.The APC added that there was a total failure of leadership,  insecurity, unprecedented corruption, impunity, massive unemployment and hunger  in the country.The statement reads in part, ‘’Since the raison d’etre of any government is the security and welfare of the citizenry, and the present administration has failed to live up to the justification of its existence, there can be no other definition of gross misconduct but that. “Therefore, the time has come for the head of that government, on whose desk the buck stops, to be removed through the provisions stipulated in the 1999 Constitution. This is the patriotic thing to do.”The APC   warned that if the National Assembly failed  to act   very fast, it  would  share with the “clueless and feckless” Jonathan administration,  the   blame for dashing the hopes of millions of Nigerians, especially the youth.The party said it was necessary for anyone who might  say the call for the impeachment of  the President was outlandish to remember that all it would take  to torpedo the current democracy was “for this increasingly-paranoid government to get a pliant judge to put a judicial stamp on just one of its litany of illegalities.” The party  also wondered why the PDP  could go to court to challenge the defection of five of its governors. It recalled that an  attempt by the ruling party to declare the seat of the then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar vacant was rejected by the Supreme Court, when he defected to the then  Action Congress of Nigeria. It wondered what could have been the motive behind the latest action of the PDP. The APC  said, ‘’What then can be the sole motive behind the PDP’s action?  To plunge Nigeria into chaos?  This is why we issued a strong warning in our statement of December  5 in which we said, ‘We wish to state unequivocally that should the PDP go ahead with this plan, there will be widespread repercussions as the APC has resolved that, henceforth, every act of impunity of the PDP and the Presidency will be met with stiff resistance in the form of a vociferous telegraphing of people’s power, the likes of which have not been witnessed in these parts.’“We reiterate those words today (Sunday), and make bold to say that not even the revelation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that snipers are being trained secretly and that 1,000 people have been placed on political watch, will deter us from saving this democracy, which was watered by the sweat and blood of many patriots, long before this generation of opportunists stormed the political scene.” The opposition  said while Nigerians were very much aware of the failings of the Jonathan government in all sectors,  it was important to remind them that the administration  had,   in particular,  not been up to scratch in fighting corruption.  The party said the government had also failed to provide jobs for Nigerian youths, even as it daily reels out phantom figures of economic growth that only serve to keep the so-called Ivy League-trained officials in charge of the economy on their jobs. The APC added, “The talk out there now is that Nigeria has never had it so bad. But the government may not know because it has distanced itself from the people.“Therefore, for embracing corruption so much and providing succor to corrupt public officials, for threatening the country’s fragile unity through divisive policies and politics, for frittering away the nation’s resources through unprecedented cronyism and clannishness, and for a total failure of leadership, this President deserves to be slammed with the cudgel of impeachment.’’When contacted, the  Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe,  said the Senate was not aware of the call  for the President’ s impeachment by the APC“I can only react to issues and matters before the Senate that have been concluded. No letter or motion has been brought before the Senate on the issue,” he said.But the Presidency, in a statement by the  Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati,   dismissed the  call as opportunistic, partisan and ill-motivated.

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