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Read Sahara Reporters culled extract of the Reuben Abati led press release
“President
Jonathan is running a people's government,” the statement said. “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.”
Towards the
APC, the statement dismissed the call for impeachment as as
opportunistic, partisan and ill-motivated, and specifically trained its
sights on its National Publicity Secretary Lai Mohammed.
“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.”
Apparently
rattled by the APC’s impeachment call, the presidency described the
opposition party as having moved further beyond the bounds of honourable
and acceptable political conduct, saying Mr. Jonathan continues to
devote himself to the discharge of a “sacred” mandate freely given 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.”
It called the
strategy an “outrageous gambit, with scant regard for peace, order,
security and political stability in the country, in furtherance of [the
APC’s] 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 statement
also called the APC statement as lacking “a single clearly defined
charge” on the basis of which any plausible impeachment proceedings can
be initiated.
“Alhaji
Mohammed’s unscrupulous effort to drag the nation’s judiciary into its
murky political warfare and his readiness to intimidate and blackmail
embers 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 statement
said, adding that the administration does not need Mohammed or the APC
to remind it of its constitutional responsibility for the security and
well-being of Nigerians.
It further
asserted that Mr. Jonathan 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.
Noting what it
called the undisguised threat by the APC to foster public insurrection
against the Federal Government if pending legal cases go against it, it
urged Nigerians to take special note of “this boastful indication" of an
intention to resort to lawlessness.
It threatened
members of the APC and others “who make themselves its willing tools for
the breach of public order and safety” with the full sanctions of the
law, and warned those threatening fire and brimstone to be ready for
“consequences of treasonable action.”
On APC's
reference’s reference to Obasanjo’s allegation concerning the training
of snipers, the presidency called it a “false copy-cat allegation,”
adding that it clearly shows that they are now in cahoots with some
other elements that are bent on discrediting his administration and
inciting the public against it.
“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,” the statement said.
Mr. Jonathan
has announced he will respond directly to Obasanjo’s 18-page letter,
dated December 2, directly, asking his aides not to do so. He has yet
to do so.
The two
chambers of the National Assembly have also joined other Nigerians in
demanding the president’s full response to the wholesale charges
contained in the letter.
*President
Jonathan i am shy to give you this advice but at this point in time and
in history,i may have to beg you to sack whoever advises you!
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