In a statement signed by Rotimi Fashakin, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, CPC said today that instead, the President, as the Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should consult within his Party for the panacea to Nigeria’s security nightmare.
Condemning in strong terms the “orgies of violence” in the three States and commiserating with the families and servicemen and women that have been affected by it, CPC questioned what an emergency administrator will hope to achieve given the present scenario of militarization in the states.
“Should this not be interpreted as another knee-jerk response of this administration to situations that require out-of-the-box thinking?” the statement asked. “Is this approach not to be interpreted as a pre-meditated consequence of ineptitude of this regime?”
Recalling that the late former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, had alerted the nation about the politics of the PDP being the locus of the insecurity in Nigeria, CPC asked: “What did the Federal Government do to stymie the odiousness of the politics of the ruling party other than merely sacking the messenger?”
The party also pointed out a “dangerous trend”: that the states mainly embroiled in ongoing insecurity are “mainly non-PDP states which further fuels the notion that these insurgencies are purposely orchestrated to create the ambience for the declaration of emergency rule in the states.”
In an unprecedented speech at the South-South Economic Summit in Asaba in April 2012, Azazi blamed the escalating insecurity in the country, particularly the growing activities of Boko Haram, on “undemocratic practices” by the political parties, especially the PDP.
“The issue of violence did not increase in Nigeria until when there was a declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan that he was going to contest,” he said. “PDP got it wrong from the beginning. The party started by saying Mr. A can rule, and Mr. B cannot rule, according to PDP conventions, rules and regulations and not according to the constitution. That created the climate for what is happening or manifesting itself in country.”
Azazi was killed in a helicopter crash in December 2012. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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