IMPEACH JONATHAN BEFORE HE CRASHES NIGERIA, APC TELLS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the National Assembly to
rise beyond partisanship and save Nigeria from imminent collapse by
immediately kick-starting the process of impeaching President Goodluck
Jonathan for gross misconduct.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is issuing
this call with a high sense of responsibility and the strong belief
that the impeachment of the President is a legitimate constitutional
option available to the National Assembly not only to protect the
nation's democracy but also to
ensure the country's unity.

"Our country is drifting dangerously and our people are divided now
perhaps more than at any other point in our history, with the
exception of the civil war period. There is a total failure of
leadership, even as insecurity, unprecedented corruption, palpable
impunity, massive unemployment and hunger stalk the land.
"Since the raison d'etre of any government is the security and welfare
of the citizenry, and the present administration has failed to live up
to the justification of its existence, there can be no other
definition of gross misconduct than that.
"Therefore, the time has come for the head of that government, on
whose desk the buck stops, to be removed through the provisions
stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. This is the patriotic thing to do," it said.
APC warned that if the National Assembly fails to act and do so very
fast, it will share with the clueless and feckless Jonathan
Administration the eternal blame for bringing to naught the hard work
of the nation's heroes past and for crashing and dashing the hopes of
millions of Nigerians, especially the youth who are the leaders of
tomorrow.
The party said it is necessary for anyone who may say the call for the
impeachment of President Jonathan is outlandish to remember that all
it takes to torpedo this democracy is for this increasingly-paranoid
government to get a pliant Judge to put a judicial stamp on just one
of its litany of illegalities, thus setting the country ablaze,
adding: "And there are many such Judges as we can see by some recent
events, despite our warnings that the efforts of the current CJN to
clean up the judiciary must not be sabotaged by a few pliant Judges."
"One such scenario is the present challenge in court by the PDP of the
defection to the APC of five state governors. The PDP has gone to
court fully aware of the ruling of the Supreme Court after the party
(PDP) attempted to make then Vice President Atiku Abubakar to lose his
seat and to also strip him of his privileges following his defection
to the ACN.
"What then can be the sole motive behind the PDP's action: To plunge
Nigerian into chaos! This is why we issued a strong warning in our
statement of Dec. 5th thus: 'We wish to state unequivocally that
should the PDP go ahead with this plan, there will be widespread
repercussions as the APC has resolved that henceforth, every act of
impunity of the PDP and the Presidency will be met with stiff
resistance in the form of a vociferous telegraphing of people power,
the likes of which have not been witnessed in these parts'.
"We reiterate those words today, and make bold to say that not even
the revelation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, that snipers are
being trained secretly and that 1,000 people have been placed on
political watch, will deter us from saving this democracy, which was
watered by the sweat and blood of many patriots, long before this
generation of opportunists stormed the political scene," it said.
APC said while Nigerians are very much aware of the failings of this
government in all sectors, it is important to remind them that the
government has in particular not been up to scratch in fighting
corruption, which is the fastest way to bring a nation to its knees;
Insecurity, which has worsened so much that even those saddled with
the security of protecting the nation are being attacked and killed at
will; Impunity, which is best exemplified in Rivers State where a
Commissioner of Police no longer takes orders from the Inspector
General.
The party said the government has also failed to provide jobs for
Nigerian youths, even as it daily reels out phantom figures of
economic growth that only serve to keep the so-called Ivy
League-trained officials in charge of the economy on their jobs; And
that electricity generation has so plummeted that many will celebrate
the forthcoming Yuletide in darkness.
"The talk out there now is that Nigeria has never had it so bad. But
the government may not know because it has distanced itself from the
people. Therefore, for embracing corruption so much and providing
succour to corrupt public officials; for threatening the country's
fragile unity through divisive policies and politics, for frittering
away the nation's resources through unprecedented cronyism and
clannishness, and for a total failure of leadership, this President
deserves to be slammed with the cudgel of impeachment," it said.