Jonathan must not succumb to blackmail —Group The Media Network - TopicsExpress



          

Jonathan must not succumb to blackmail —Group The Media Network for Transformation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has asked Presient Jonathan not to succumb to blackmail of some key stakeholders in PDP, whom it accused of planning to stop his second term ambition. The group, in a statement by its coordinator, Mr Goodluck Ebelo, said the move by former Vice President Abubakar and six governors during the party’s special national convention at the Eagle Square, on Saturday, was part of the ploy to stop Jonathan’s yet to be declared 2015 ambition. “While we appreciate the right of any person, including these feuding politicians, to aspire to any political office in the land, we denounce this glaring conspiracy to make President Jonathan a hostage of their individual ambitions. We wish to state that the premeditated walk-out at the Eagle Square, last Saturday and the demands of these politicians smack of blackmail. “We, therefore, call on the president to be resolute and resist this weather beaten gambit, a treachery and mischief, designed to cow him. He should have zero-tolerance to political hostage taking. “It is not news that the key persona in the last Saturday’s display of shame are a group of politicians with smouldering ambition to be president in 2015. Of itself, a legitimate aspiration, but to demand that the president should deny himself what the constitution affords him is intolerable hubris. “We, therefore, call on the president and all leaders of PDP, loyal and faithful to the party, to immediately discontinue the ongoing negotiations with these men with self serving, ill-disguised ambitions. What becomes of any ambition, including the president’s, is in the hands of Nigerians, not a motley crowd of turn coats. “While we welcome the wish of the feuding politicians to remain in PDP, we make bold to say that intimidation, treachery and blackmail would not derail the genuine intentions of the president,” the statement read. The group said Atiku had once left PDP and his absence was not felt, adding that President Jonathan must call the bluff of those wishing to hurry him out of the 2015 race. “It is common knowledge that a leader of this group once left the party and, at the end, neither the PDP nor its presidential candidate, (the late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua), who defeated him in the 2007 presidential election, felt any pinch from his absence. “We are of the opinion that the performance of the Jonathan-led administration in the first four years would give the opportunity to the Nigerian people to decide whether or not to give him a second term in office. “It does not lie in the mouth champions of sectionalism to hijack that decision from Nigerians,” the group added.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:24:11 +0000

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