BUT for the opposition All Progressives Congress,
President Goodluck Jonathan would have created chaos
in the country and forced Nigerians to submit to a reign
of terror, chieftain of the APC in Lagos State, Chief Ayo
Akande, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Akande said Nigerians should rather commend the APC
for offering ‘robust opposition,’ rather than condemning
the party for the recent directive to its members in the
National Assembly to stand against the President’s bills.
He said, “Most decisions taken by the APC as the major
opposition party in the country are people-oriented and
they are aimed at freeing the Nigerian masses from the
shackles of economic, social and political oppression of
the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration. So the
APC deserves commendation rather than condemnation
by a section of the Nigerian people.
“If not that the APC has been vigilant, President
Jonathan and his PDP would have thrown the country
into a state of anarchy and would have made Nigerians
to submit to a fate of hopelessness and misrule.”
The APC chieftain said the directive of the party’s
leadership for the National Assembly members to block
the passage of the 2014 budget was just as a weapon to
make the Federal Government do the right thing.
“If you are fighting for the cause of the generality, you
fight with everything in your arsenal. You fight with your
teeth and nails and your legs. The import of the directive
was for President Goodluck Jonathan to realise that
good governance, embedded with fairness, equity and
justice is the right of all Nigerians,” he explained.
He queried alleged harassment of ex-Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, by the
State Security Service over “his caution against rigging in
the 2015 elections.”
According to him, Jonathan should be receptive to other
people’s views, stressing that it was only by doing so
that the people can contribute to the development of
the country.
He described the APC as a party with well-defined
programmes that would provide democracy dividends
for Nigerians come 2015.
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President Goodluck Jonathan would have created chaos
in the country and forced Nigerians to submit to a reign
of terror, chieftain of the APC in Lagos State, Chief Ayo
Akande, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Akande said Nigerians should rather commend the APC
for offering ‘robust opposition,’ rather than condemning
the party for the recent directive to its members in the
National Assembly to stand against the President’s bills.
He said, “Most decisions taken by the APC as the major
opposition party in the country are people-oriented and
they are aimed at freeing the Nigerian masses from the
shackles of economic, social and political oppression of
the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration. So the
APC deserves commendation rather than condemnation
by a section of the Nigerian people.
“If not that the APC has been vigilant, President
Jonathan and his PDP would have thrown the country
into a state of anarchy and would have made Nigerians
to submit to a fate of hopelessness and misrule.”
The APC chieftain said the directive of the party’s
leadership for the National Assembly members to block
the passage of the 2014 budget was just as a weapon to
make the Federal Government do the right thing.
“If you are fighting for the cause of the generality, you
fight with everything in your arsenal. You fight with your
teeth and nails and your legs. The import of the directive
was for President Goodluck Jonathan to realise that
good governance, embedded with fairness, equity and
justice is the right of all Nigerians,” he explained.
He queried alleged harassment of ex-Minister of the
Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, by the
State Security Service over “his caution against rigging in
the 2015 elections.”
According to him, Jonathan should be receptive to other
people’s views, stressing that it was only by doing so
that the people can contribute to the development of
the country.
He described the APC as a party with well-defined
programmes that would provide democracy dividends
for Nigerians come 2015.
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