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, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said under
President 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 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, as he did recently in
Ekiti and he is allegedly
planning to do in Osun state;
shutting airports at
will just to punish the
opposition and muscling the
electoral commission, INEC, to
prevent incorruptible RECs
from conducting elections, it
said.
''As we write, there are
contrived crises in Rivers and
Edo, where a handful of
lawmakers with the backing of
higher authorities have been
terrorizing 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; and 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 was 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 hall
marks 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.
''With such huge funds now
being allegedly channeled to
Osun to thwart the will of the
people ahead of the 9 Aug.
governorship election, in an
attempt to repeat the Ekiti
'experiment' which the PDP-led
federal government deemed to
have been a 'success', it is now
clear the
Jonathan Administration will not
pull any punches in subverting
democracy ahead of the 2015
general elections.
''It is also clear now what
happened to the 20-billion-doll
ar oil money that went missing,
as well as the reason behind
the massive oil subsidy fraud,
the Malabo multi-billion dollar
fraud, the pension scam, and
finally why the President, whose
body language does not abhor
corruption, has redefined
stealing as anything but
corruption,'' APC said.
The party said as far as
President Jonathan is
concerned, all that matters is
his re-election. While he
pursues that goal with vigour,
the over 200 missing girls in
Borno can stay where they are
being kept by their abductors
for over three months now; and
the daily carnage in the North-
east as well as Kaduna,
Nasarawa and Benue can
continue,
even though over 12,000 people
have been killed and 8,000
maimed. Once the President
continues to play his dangerous
politics of re-election, which
involves using state resources
and national institutions to
muscle and muzzle the
opposition; the press and
ordinary citizens, all
is well in the eyes of his
purposeless party.
'Unfortunately, in the midst of
all the shenanigans, Nigerians
are more divided than ever
along ethnic and religious lines,
no thanks to a President who is
so obsessed with power that he
will not hesitate to cash in on
the nation's fault lines, abuse
federal institutions, compromise
once-credible public
commentators to shamelessly
mortgage their integrity on the
altar of greed, and disregard
even the Electoral Act by kick-
starting electioneering
campaign before the starting
gun is fired.
''In view of this, we are now
alerting the good people of
Nigeria that President
Jonathan's re-election at all
costs is a clear and present
danger to Nigeria, her people
and indeed her democracy.
''Unless Nigerians speak out and
unless the instigated
harassment of the media by
security agencies is halted, so
the Fourth Estate of the Realm
can continue to perform its
constitutional duties
unhindered, Nigerians should
gear up for more dangerous
days ahead, which will include
the stripping of the citizenry of
their constitutionally-
guaranteed basic rights, more
egregious abuse of national
institutions, perpetration of
more acts of corruption as well
as the muscling and muzzling of
the opposition, even as the
people will continue to be
impoverished.
''On our part, as the country's
main opposition party, we
pledge to be unrelenting in
speaking the truth to power,
irrespective of whether or not
it makes the federal
government uncomfortable, in
the overall interest of our
nation,'' APC said.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Osogbo, July 9th 2014

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The piece above is not different from the one that promises to make Nigeria ungovernable though in a cloned form.
I think it will do us all good if our governance system is de-centralized so that each region will manage theirs or best fully independent states in control of its resources paying taxes to the centre. This is the only way regions and states can develop evenly.

Oh God save our nation from self seeking politicians. You alone searches the mind of men and know their thoughts. By your divine power Lord, let such men/women not achieve their aim.

God Bless Nigeria.

Tell me dis man is not sick,abg na so dem dey carry win election?

NO Apc and their armed wing bokoharam is Nigeria's problem

NO !!! Apc and their armed wing bokoharam is Nigeria's problem

APC - STUPID PARTY.

THE MORE YOU CRITICIZE GEJ, THE MORE YOU WIN HIM MORE ADMIRERS.

GEJ, pls give them the answer meant for fools - SILENCE.

APC should do the needful and stop barking on the pages of newspaper...

Instead of coming up with all this crap they post everywhere, they should just go and sit somewhere and strategize on how to remove PDP from power come 2015...

Instead of all this useless rantings they come up with all the time...this is becoming really tiring

Imagine Nigeria without APC.

thats why i dont take the supporter of APC serious