The Action Congress of
Nigeria through its trusted spokes person Alhaji Lai Mohammed has
released a press release with respect to the mayhem in Rivers State
yesterday where five Nigerian Governors were help hostage. The press
release is published below unedited.
The Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) has asked Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan
responsible if the country slides into anarchy as a result of the
worsening crisis in Rivers state.
Reacting to the reported
attack on the four Governors who visited Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers
in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the party said in a statement issued on
Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in
Oro, Kwara State, that the attack that took place under President
Jonathan’s watch is unprecedented in the country’s history.
”We will not accept the
usual sophistry that President Jonathan is not in any way involved in
the Rivers crisis. It is also not an excuse to argue that the President
did not know that the visiting Governors will be attacked, because as
the country’s Chief Security Officer, he has his ears and eyes all over
the country in the persons of security agents. Therefore, if the
argument is that he did not know of the attack, then he is not on top of
his game,” it said.
ACN wondered when it became a
sin for any Nigerian, including elected officials, to visit any part of
the country as the Governors did, saying there can be no justification
other than organized political rascality for a group of paid hoodlums to
invade a secure environment like the airport and pelt the convoy
bearing the Governors with all sorts of objects.
The party wondered why the
Police could not provide adequate security for the visiting state chief
executives and restrained the hired scalawags from their audacious
action.
”Would the police have
allowed tramps to attack the Governors if they were visiting the
President? Would the police in Rivers have allowed vagrants to act
freely if those visiting Port Harcourt had come in solidarity with the
five renegade members of the State House of Assembly? The unprofessional
behaviour of the police in Rivers is the reason that Nigerians have
accused the state police command of bias and called for the
re-deployment of its ‘political’ Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu.
”The visiting Governors were
right to have visited their Rivers’ counterpart, in the face of the
siege on him by renegades being teleguided from higher quarters. They
are right to have expressed solidarity with Gov. Amaechi, the Chairman
of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum. We salute the Governors as true
patriots and the real sustainers of our Constitution, and we demand
appropriate sanctions for those whose dereliction of duty put the
Governors’ lives in danger,” it said.
ACN repeated its earlier
warning against any contrived crisis in any part of the country as a way
of pushing the country into a perpetual state of chaos, thus ensuring
there will be no elections in 2015.
”The politics of 2015 cannot
be removed from what is happening in Rivers. We have had cause to warn
Nigerians to be vigilant against those who will foment trouble where
there is none, just to put in abeyance the 2015 elections, especially
where the emerging signals point to the fact that they will be rejected
by voters. Those who are afraid of free and fair elections in 2015 will
do anything to prevent one. Therefore, we are repeating our call on all
Nigerians to be vigilant, because eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty,” the party said.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
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