Impeach Jonathan now, APC urges lawmakers

Impeach Jonathan now, APC urges
lawmakers
on december 15, 2013 at 5:00 pm in news
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the
National Assembly to rise beyond partisanship and
save Nigeria from imminent collapse by
immediately kick-starting the process of
impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan for gross
misconduct.
In a statement in Lagos, Sunday, by its Interim
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said it is issuing this call with a high
sense of responsibility and the strong belief that the
impeachment of the President is a legitimate
constitutional option available to the National
Assembly not only to protect the nation’s
democracy but also to ensure the country’s unity.
”Our country is drifting dangerously and our people
are divided now perhaps more than at any other
point in our history,
with the exception of the civil war period. There is a
total failure of leadership, even as insecurity,
unprecedented corruption,
palpable impunity, massive unemployment and
hunger stalk the land.
”Since the raison d’etre of any government is the
security and welfare of the citizenry, and the
present administration has failed to live up to the
justification of its existence, there can be no other
definition of gross misconduct than that.
”Therefore, the time has come for the head of that
government, on whose desk the buck stops, to be
removed through the provisions stipulated in the
1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This is the patriotic thing to do,” it said.
APC warned that if the National Assembly fails to
act and do so very fast, it will share with the
clueless and feckless Jonathan
Administration the eternal blame for bringing to
naught the hard work of the nation’s heroes past
and for crashing and dashing the hopes of millions
of Nigerians, especially the youth who are the
leaders of tomorrow.
The party said it is necessary for anyone who may
say the call for the impeachment of President
Jonathan is outlandish to remember that all it takes
to torpedo this democracy is for this increasingly-
paranoid government to get a pliant Judge to put a
judicial stamp on just one of its litany of illegalities,
thus setting the country ablaze, adding: ”And there
are many such Judges as we can see by some
recent events, despite our warnings that the efforts
of the current CJN to clean up the judiciary must not
be sabotaged by a few pliant Judges.”