Presidency: Tinubu, Others Are Anarchists The presidency has described the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, and others as anarchists for calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign for his administration’s inability to contain the activities of the Boko Haram. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said the suggestion by Tinubu that Jonathan should resign had again shown beyond doubt that the former Lagos State governor and his colleagues in the opposition were a bunch of political anarchists and charlatans blinded by an unbridled appetite for power. The presidential aide said the assertion by Tinubu at a political rally in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday that “in civilised” societies, the president should have resigned was unfounded and lacking in historical precedence. According to him, “We challenge him to tell Nigerians which part of his ‘civilised’ world has there been a call on a president to resign during an ongoing war. “When terrorists attacked the United States of America in September, 2001, leaders of the Democratic Party did not demand a resignation of President George Bush rather they rose in defence of the American nation to support the various measures taken by the president to defeat the al Qaeda terrorists. “It is perhaps necessary to remind the APC leader that it was leading members of his party who vehemently opposed and openly criticised the proscription of the Boko Haram sect by the federal government in 2013 with some of them even going as far as describing it as a move against the North while others tried to incite the civil society to condemn this anti-terrorists Act.” Okupe therefore said it was unfortunate that the APC, in its desperation for power and eagerness to make selfish political gains from insecurity, has shown a total lack of the spirit of nationalism and statesmanship in its public comments on the challenges of insurgency in the North-east. He said: “It is particularly sad that leaders of the APC would mount every available podium to pour invectives on the president and ridicule members of the armed forces of Nigeria who are in the battlefield of the war against terror in the North-east of this country. “Telling the president to resign because of an ongoing insurgency is the height of insensitive, indecorous and bad politics which ought to be roundly condemned by every patriotic Nigerian. “We wish to remind the likes of Tinubu that by the provisions of the Nigerian constitution, the only recognised means of changing a government is through the electoral process which comes every four years. “If the APC leader has a problem about the chances of his political party winning an election, as he obviously does, he should not resort to brigandage, rather we will advise that they go back to the drawing board to rewrite their lack-luster, ill-defined and uninspiring manifestoes and see if they can sell it to the Nigeria public side by side with the well-articulated, dutifully executed and widely acclaimed transformation agenda of President Jonathan.” This Day.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:19:22 +0000
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