The party, on Thursday, said it has reached a point where it will ask its members to react in the face of alleged police bias in the political crisis in Rivers State
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The statement added: “Because we abhor anarchy, which is the very antithesis of democracy, we hereby call, for the umpteenth time, on President Jonathan to act today to stop the looming anarchy in Rivers unless of course he is bent on throwing the country he was elected to govern into chaos
While the APC said it viewed the act as sabotage, FAAN explained it did not get any notification that the aircraft was going in the direction of Gombe and that it had earlier sent out a notification that there was a maintenance going on at the airport.
Metuh said that the call by the APC was part of the party’s larger agenda to truncate the country`s democracy
In a statement issued in Osogbo, Osun State on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed serious concern over the allegations that the Jonathan administration is training snipers at the same facility where the Abacha killer squad was trained; talks of abuse and misuse of the military and other security apparatus for personal and political interest; as well as the reported placing of 1,000 people under a ‘political watch-list
According to him, the agreement the national executive reached was that the new PDP governors in APC would have the same rights as the APC governors
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the call for total cancellation supersedes its early call for a rerun in four local government areas and is based on the report it received from its agents as well as from local and foreign observers during the poll
Mohammed said: “Rightly or wrongly in our country, institutions of state take a cue from the President’s body language
In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said even during general elections, people are allowed to move around freely from 4pm on election day
The party said Tukur’s statement that the President will rule till 2019 is nothing but an empty boast aimed at ingratiating himself to Jonathan
The national publicity secretary maintained that the party would begin the registration of its members nationwide in November
It said the lessons of the Boko Haram crisis, which, through the same attitude now being exhibited towards the Nasarawa State crisis, was allowed to fester and then degenerate into a slow-motion warfare, should guide the Federal Government to quickly bring the Nasarawa State crisis under control
Mohammed said the party had harmonised and finalised the process as well as create format for future activities that would enable the party to participate in future elections
The party said: “Issues, issues and issues. These are what Nigerians are interested in, not continuous muck-raking about opposition leaders like General Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For example, Nigerians want to know why the country can still not feed itself after 14 years of endless promises by the PDP; Nigerians want to know why they cannot be protected by their government when the security of lives and property is the rason d’etre of any government
The statement said: “Let us call a spade a spade: What is happening in Rivers State is not normal. What is normal in five members of a 32-strong house seeking to remove the Speaker supported by the remaining members? What is normal in the Police Commissioner of a state labelling the state’s Governor a dictator and supporting renegade lawmakers to stir trouble? What is normal in hired thugs stoning visiting Governors from another part of the country?
The ACN wondered when it became a sin for any Nigerian, including elected officials, to visit any part of the country as the governors did, saying there can be no justification other than organized political rascality for a group of paid hoodlums to invade a secure environment like the airport and pelt the convoy bearing the governors with all sorts of objects
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said only the Governors of Lagos, Oyo and Ogun States, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Abiola Ajimobi and Ibikunle Amosun, were invited to the ceremony, hence it is inaccurate to give the impression that all the ACN governors in the South West were expected to be there
The presidency went after the messenger, rather than the message, rehashing its old and stale cliches about the ACN and its leader for daring to carry out an objective analysis of the state of our economy as well as the state of the nation and also suggesting the way forward
Mohammed spoke in Lagos at the 7th Town Hall Meeting of Senator Oluremi Tinubu, representing Lagos Central
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Presidency and the PDP should tell Nigerians the names of all those mentioned as sponsors of Boko Haram in a well-researched article in the journal of the New York-based World Policy Institute, entitled: ”Anatomy of African Terrorism: Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown terror network