The Reformed-All Progressives
Congress (R-APC) says it is shocking that President Muhammadu Buhari has not
deemed it fit to condemn the “illegal” attempt to impeach Samuel Ortom,
governor of Benue state.
Eight lawmakers of the state
house of assembly commenced impeachment proceeding against the governor on
Monday, while some 22 others were reportedly blocked from attending plenary by
the police.
Reacting to this Kazeem Afegbua,
spokesman of the R-APC, said Buhari’s silence suggests he is the “chief
promoter of undemocratic illegalities that have consistently undermined our
democratic engagements in the last three years”.
He alleged that there is an
attempt to force down the “bitter pills” of Buhari’s second term agenda down
the throat of Nigerians.
“On the one hand, the APC party
leadership declared that they aren’t losing sleep over our members activities
ostensibly to present a fake personae but it has consistently mounted pressure
on our members to capitulate under the influence of mouth-watering promises,”
he said.
“Now that our member Governor
Ortom has given the APC red card, and deservedly so, heaven has been let loose
and President Buhari has maintained a conspiratorial silence and deliberately
feigning ignorance over the democratic gangsterism that has dominated Benue
assembly at present.”
The group said the Monday
incident and similar ones in Benue show Nigeria’s democracy is “seriously under
threat” by those trying to “armtwist the Benue people against their will.”
According to the statement, “this
desperation is getting too much and it must be arrested forthwith without
equivocation before this democracy is reduced to a mindless rubble.”
“We cannot afford to feign
ignorance over this heinous crime against humanity under an atmosphere of
threat, tension and harassment that has assumed the second nature of this
government,” the group added.
“It is becoming petty that this
government has descended to a level of irredeemable dictatorship and outright
desperation in the name of forcing the bitter pills of second term down the
throat of Nigerians.
“We cannot continue to pretend
that all is well when our country is gradually descending to the abyss of
maximum rulership orchestrated by the president’s foot soldiers.
“We are therefore raising alarm
that this democracy must be saved from the indecent grip of APC agents of
suppression and oppression under the clear supervision of the president.”
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Maybe Kazeem Afegbua has suddenly forgotten, when Saraki et all "installed" themselves as the heads of the 2 chambers of the national assembly, against the wishes and plans of the party they claimed to belong to, did Buhari say anything or was he bothered?
ReplyDeleteSo stop crying wolf where there was none!
Kazeem is that ur name useless fool ur brain no they function right so u can easily forget things or u think we have forgotten about the past sorry. Plsss dont cry but u can go to curt and do ur worst. With u or without u we are moving gradually to our promise land.
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