Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has decried developments in Rivers State lamenting that the country is yet to learn from a similarly dark period when Governor Chris Ngige and democratic institutions in Anambra State were brutally violated 10 years ago.
In narrations on his twitter handle, Atiku drew surprising similarities between the developments in Rivers State and Anambra State which ironically commenced exactly about the same time 10 years ago, on July 10, 2003.
Atiku said: “I got a lot of tweets about the removal of Gov. Chris Ngige during my time in office. Today is exactly 10 years,” he said in the first tweet posted on Wednesday.
Following that he also tweeted: “it is an interesting coincidence that the sad events in Rivers are taking place around the 10th anniversary of a similar scenario in Anambra.
“It was July 10, 2003. The President was away to Uganda on an official visit. I was holding fort for him as Vice President.”
Giving details of his response, he tweeted: “A telephone call came in from a frantic Gov Ngige. He had been abducted, beaten and confined to a room.”
“I immediately placed a call to the IG of Police, Tafa Balogun, with orders to put a stop to the subversion of democracy.
“Exactly 10 years later it seems we have failed to learn any lessons from one of the darkest moments in our recent democratic history”.
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Was Ngige eying the ROCK @ that time? I think the scenes are different....
ReplyDeleteAlso add. Was Ngige challenging the government at the centre or was he equatting himself with the president? Was he being used by enemies of the federal government?. In all these the answer is no rather Ngige was fighting for the generaity of his poeple not for personal interest and that of his fellow looters in government called law makers. Atiku you are wrong. You only compared this because you are interested in the spoil
Deletefool comentators. Atiku compared nd it is 2 serv as a lesson. Besides, Amechi is so free 2 vie 4 president
ReplyDeleteBut you should use your head @ anonymous 4:38.
ReplyDeleteSimple illustration; the writeup says "similar thing" but not the same thing.
Even if it the same. So if a governor have such interest it now wrong but GEJ was once a governor and when he vie for president he was not treated like this. Remember was goes around comes around.
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