The
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked Nigerians to hold President
Goodluck Jonathan responsible if the country slides into anarchy as a
result of the worsening crisis in Rivers State.
Reacting
to the reported attack on the four Governors who visited Gov. Chibuike
Amaechi of Rivers in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the party said in a
statement issued on Wednesday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Oro, Kwara State, that the attack that
took place under President Jonathan's watch is unprecedented in the
country's history.
''We
will not accept the usual sophistry that President Jonathan is not in any
way involved in the Rivers crisis. It is also not an excuse to argue that
the President did not know that the visiting Governors will be attacked,
because as the country's Chief Security Officer, he has his ears and eyes
all over the country in the persons of security agents. Therefore, if the
argument is that he did not know of the attack, then he is not on top
of his game,'' it said.
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.
The
party wondered why the Police could not provide adequate security for the
visiting state chief executives and restrained the hired scalawags from
their audacious action.
''Would
the police have allowed tramps to attack the Governors if they were
visiting the President? Would the police in Rivers have allowed vagrants
to act freely if those visiting Port Harcourt had come in solidarity with
the five renegade members of the State House of Assembly? The
unprofessional behaviour of the police in Rivers is the reason that
Nigerians have accused the state police command of bias and called for the
re-deployment of its 'political' Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu.
''The
visiting Governors were right to have visited their Rivers' counterpart,
in the face of the siege on him by renegades being teleguided from
higher quarters. They are right to have expressed solidarity with Gov.
Amaechi, the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum. We salute the
Governors as true patriots and the real sustainers of our Constitution,
and we demand appropriate sanctions for those whose dereliction of duty
put the Governors' lives in danger,'' it said.
ACN
repeated its earlier warning against any contrived crisis in any part of
the country as a way of pushing the country into a perpetual state of
chaos, thus ensuring there will be no elections in 2015.
''The
politics of 2015 cannot be removed from what is happening in Rivers. We
have had cause to warn Nigerians to be vigilant against those
who will foment trouble where there is none, just to put in abeyance
the 2015 elections, especially where the emerging signals point to
the fact that they will be rejected by voters. Those who are afraid
of free and fair elections in 2015 will do anything to prevent one.
Therefore, we are repeating our call on all Nigerians to be vigilant,
because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,'' the party said.
Alhaji
Lai Mohammed
National
Publicity Secretary
Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
July
17th 2013
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