The presidency describes the ACN’s statement as “the height of political rascality.”
The Presidency has reacted angrily to the call for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan over the Rivers House of Assembly crisis.The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, who addressed journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, said President Goodluck Jonathan was not involved in the Rivers crisis, and described the call as “the height of political rascality”. Mr. Okupe said the reaction of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to the event in the Rivers Assembly, as contained in a press release, should be of concern to all patriotic Nigerians.
The ACN statement had blamed Mr. Jonathan for the crisis and accused him of abhorrence for the rule of law, and for
encouraging minority Rivers lawmakers to disrupt proceedings in the Assembly. But in a swift response, Mr. Okupe said the comment by the ACN was another “condemnable, extremist and fundamentally flawed position by the opposition
party”. He also stated that in spite of what the ACN would want the Nigerian people to believe, President Goodluck Jonathan had absolutely nothing to do with the political crisis that seemed to have engulfed Rivers State in recent times.
“The President is not, has not and will never engineer any act that can cause disaffection between Governor Rotimi Amaechi or any other Governor and the state legislature or any other institution of government,” Mr. Okupe said. He said to avid watchers of Nigerian politics, Mr. Jonathan had not shown himself as a person who would deploy his immense constitutional powers against any governor or democratic institution to achieve personal goals. The presidential spokesperson said, “Since his election as President, his personal and official mien reveals a personality that has utmost and distinct respect for democracy and rule of law. “It is sad therefore, that despite repeated clarifications including one
recently made by ACN Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state absolving President Goodluck Jonathan from the NGF crisis, Alhaji Lai Muhammed in his characteristic deafness to truth, continues to mischievously drag the exalted office of the President into controversies arising from the election of the Chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum. “The call by the Action Congress of Nigeria for the impeachment of Mr. President based on these frivolous, unsubstantiated allegations is the limit of tolerable nonsense and a clear descent into inglorious political rascality.” ACN wants power at all cost Mr. Okupe said it was increasingly obvious that the desperation of the ACN to bullishly acquire power by all means and at all cost, including mindless precipitation of anarchy, disaffection and break down of public order was the driving force behind their incessant, “irresponsible and unpatriotic politics of hate and deceit and their high propensity to fan the embers of national discord, disunity and social disorder.” He urged lawmakers and the general public to ignore and disregard “the self-serving and unpatriotic call for impeachment of the President by the Actiona Congress of Nigeria.
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