APC unleashes media assault on Jonathan, blames him for partys loss in Ekiti and other national issues The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described President Goodluck Jonathan as “Nigeria’s number one enemy because of his propensity to perpetrate impunity, abuse federal institutions and tolerate corruption, all in a dangerous clamour to win re- election at all costs.” In a statement issued in Osogbo on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said under Jonathan’s watch, Nigeria has been thrown into unprecedented crisis that is manifesting in the opposition strongholds of Rivers, Edo, Adamawa and Nasarawa states, and elsewhere across the country. The President, according to APC, has also abused national institutions perhaps more than any other President in Nigeria’s history, deploying the police and the army to intimidate and harass ordinary citizens in general and opposition supporters in particular. It cited the recently held governorship election in Ekiti State as a pointer, alleging that the President is planning similarly for the Osun election, ruing shutting airports at will just to punish the opposition and muscling INEC to prevent incorruptible RECs from conducting elections. ‘’As we write, there are contrived crises in Rivers and Edo, where a handful of lawmakers with the backing of higher authorities have been terrorising the Houses of Assembly in their states and defying court orders at will, with the ultimate prize for the renegades being the states’ chief executives. There is crisis in Adamawa, where an impeachment plot has been undoubtedly instigated and hatched by higher authorities, despite tepid denials, and soldiers have been deployed to cage in very high state officials. ‘’In Ekiti, several billions of naira were allegedly scooped from a massive political war chest to subvert democracy, induce voters and upturn all known political theories to such an extent that all that anyone seeking to be elected now has to do is to dole out stolen public funds to a people already rendered comatose and impoverished by runaway corruption, glaring incompetence and sheer cluelessness that are the hallmarks of the Jonathan administration. ‘’Under President Jonathan, there is no longer the need to make any electoral promises or carry out people-oriented and quality of life projects. Just distribute bags of rice, expired or not, to a people already famished by a clueless Federal Government, and tuck in a few naira notes into the pockets of electorates who have been deliberately impoverished. This is a clear subversion of democracy.”
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:13:11 +0000
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