Be ready to face consequences of treason – Presidency warns APC

Be ready to face consequences of treason
– Presidency warns APC
on december 15, 2013 at 8:21 pm in news
The has Presidency has warned the All
Progressives Congress (APC) that it should be ready
to face consequences of treason.
The was made known in a statement signed by the
President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special
Adviser,  Reuben Abati.
The Statement read thus
”We have noted with utter disdain, the reckless and
irresponsible call by the APC on Sunday for the
National Assembly to commence impeachment
proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan.
President Goodluck Jonathan
Ordinarily, we would not have dignified Alhaji Lai
Mohammed’s latest vituperations in the service of
his paymasters with a response, but we thought it
necessary to warn that the Federal Government will
not standby idly and let the nation be plunged into
unnecessary crises and political instability because
of the desperation and apparent readiness of the
APC spokesman and his gang of power-seeking
desperadoes to sacrifice the well-being of the
country on the altar of their selfish personal
ambitions.
The Presidency totally condemns the decision by
Alhaji Mohammed and his party to move further
beyond the bounds of honourable and acceptable
political conduct with the senseless call for the
impeachment of a President who continues to
sincerely devote himself to the discharge of the
sacred mandate freely given to him by Nigerians.
The APC, which remains a minority party with
doubtful credentials in the National Assembly,
knows fully well that its attempt to hector and
blackmail a Parliament dominated by loyal members
of the President’s party, the PDP, into an
impeachment process, will come to nothing.
But it has cavalierly embarked on this outrageous
gambit, with scant regard for peace, order, security
and political stability in the country, in furtherance of
its  dastardly and heinous strategy of over-heating
the polity and working to cause public disaffection
against the Jonathan Presidency with lies, false
accusations and unjustifiable indictments ahead of
the 2015 general elections.
The emptiness and hollowness of the APC’s call for
President Jonathan’s impeachment will be obvious
to all objective and discerning Nigerians who read
through the statement issued by Alhaji Mohammed
today. It was long on self-serving rhetoric and
falsehoods, but lacked a single clearly defined
charge on the basis of which any plausible
impeachment proceedings against the President
can be initiated.
All that the APC could offer in justification of its
absurd and hare-brained impeachment call was a
rehash of its well-worn litany of baseless
accusations against the President, including some
for which culpability should be laid squarely at the
doorsteps of its own leaders and some of their new
friends.
The Presidency also considers it utterly deplorable
that the APC has, in its Machiavellian desperation to
seize control of the Federal Government, recklessly
assailed the integrity and honour of the Nigerian
Judiciary in a callous attempt to  pre-empt the
outcome of the case legitimately brought against it
by some of its new friends by the PDP.
Alhaji Mohammed’s unscrupulous effort to drag the
nation’s judiciary into its murky political warfare and
his readiness to intimidate and blackmail  members
of the bench so as to secure a favourable outcome
for his party in the pending case clearly shows that
nothing is beyond the pale for him and the APC in
pursuit of their quest for power.
The Jonathan Administration does not need Lai
Mohammed or the APC to remind it of its
constitutional responsibility for the security and
well-being of Nigerians. The President will continue
to do his utmost best to achieve positive national
transformation in all areas in spite of efforts by the
opposition to thwart or disparage the work of his
administration.
In this regard, we have noted the undisguised threat
by the APC to foster public insurrection against the
Federal Government if pending legal cases go
against it. We urge Nigerians to take special note of
this boastful indication of an intention to resort to
lawlessness.
The Presidency warns that the APC and any
persons who make themselves its willing tools for
the breach of public order and safety will be made
to face the full sanctions of the law. Those who are
threatening fire and brimstone should be ready for
consequences of treasonable action.
The APC’s false copy-cat allegation that 1, 000
snipers are being trained by the Jonathan
Administration clearly shows that they are now in
cahoots with some other elements who are bent on
discrediting this administration and inciting the
public against it.
President Jonathan is running a people’s
government. He does not need any snipers. His
legitimacy comes from the people. Those who are
alleging the existence of snipers should step
forward and provide the evidence or shut up forever
and go down in history as spineless cowards,
driven by sheer greed and indecency.
We dismiss the APC’s call for the President’s
impeachment as opportunistic, partisan and ill-
motivated.
We call on patriots to make the necessary
distinction between such reckless violations of civic
duty and the urgent need to protect the integrity of
the Nigerian nation against those who for selfish
reasons have declared their readiness to stop at
nothing.”