Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on Wednesday described the declaration of a State of Emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States by President Goodluck Jonathan as a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
“It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated,” he said in a press statement, stressing that by the action, Mr. Jonathan has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States.

Tinubu said that keen observers have been left with the unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.

“Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.”

He warned that the administration is in effect setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict, as actions such as this one often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies that are a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness.

“The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting,” he said.

Chief Tinubu further warned that Jonathan’s pronouncement, which seeks to abridge or has the potential of totally scuttling the constitutional functions of Governors and other elected representatives of the people, will be counterproductive in the long run.

“A State of Emergency already exists in the states where JTF operates,” he pointed out, noting that residents of the affected communities live in constant fear and their rights are violated with impunity under the guise of searching for terrorists in their respective domains.

“Hiding under some nebulous claims which border on the intractability of the security challenges posed by Boko Haram or some acclaimed traditionalists who have killed some policemen to render ineffective the constitutional powers vested in elected Governors and other representatives of the people, perceived as not amenable to manipulation for the 2015 project amounts to reducing serious issues bordering on the survival of the country to partisan politics,” he said.

The ACN chieftain called on all those who love Nigeria genuinely to advise the federal government not to tinker with the mandates of the governors of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa under any guise, calling it a “potentially destructive” path to take.

“If security of a society is about the protection of lives and property of the citizenry, the involvement of the people is a sine qua non to effective intelligence gathering,” the statement said. “Any measures put in place which alienate the people, in particular their elected representatives, should be considered as fundamentally defective by every right thinking person in the country.”

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Asiwaju need to be reasonable even if this once

The ACN chieftain called on all those who love Nigeria genuinely to advise the federal government not to tinker with the mandates of the governors of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa under any guise, calling it a “potentially destructive” path to take

what is Tinubu saying here? the president has not tinkered with the governorship of the state. This exposes where Tinubu's interest lies. Power grab is his priority and not the security or sovereignty of this country.

It is striking that in criticising the President's move Tinubu did not offer any new alternative. It is on record that this administration has offered an opportunity for amnesty against the will of many Nigerians and yet this offer has not yet been accepted but yet the criminality/terror continues!!!

Tinubu on this day failed to tell Nigerians what they (ACN or APC) will do differently were his party in Government. You can not claim to want to provide an alterntive to the Present administration when you clearly do not have an alternative policy!!!!!

What is ACN or CPC or APC solution to the terrorism that has befallen Nigeria! It is easy to criticise!

Tinubu, your father nyansh

In saner climes, this garrulous theif should be in prison serving something like 138 years jail term for all his crimes against humanity.

owobokiri: In saner climes, this garrulous theif should be in prison serving something like 138 years jail term for all his crimes against humanity.

And what against humanity are you talking about?



Ignorant village illiterate...

Eko Ile:

And what against humanity are you talking about?



Ignorant village illiterate...

Eko Ile you are here again to defend you father Tinubu, APC, ACN, LIAR MOHAMMED, BOKO HARAM and BUHARI

After smoking a bag of Indian hemp, what do expect from ojuyobo?

Eko-Ile

I keep hoping you will have a relevant contribution to the submission of Tinubu and this topic?

Sounds like you will rather engage in back and forth with Owobokiri?

The progressives dont seem any different for Jonny boy "fans"

Foolish Tinubu

i will be least surprise if we get to discover he's a astakeholder in the boko haram caucus....

. see as his lips black, this guy don smoke die

God help us....Na all these kind of people wan front us for Odua Rep?With all the things dat is going on in the country,na 2015 election him dey talk abt?Yorubas need to think well abt hw to run our own country and stop been nigeria...

This is why I keep saying excess puffing of cocaine is not good for the brain! Now see wetin Asiwaju dey yearn now

Asiwaju's comment is simply unacceptable. I'd rather he kept mum rather than never say/see any good in GEJ's govt.

seunny4lif: God help us....Na all these kind of people wan front us for Odua Rep?With all the things dat is going on in the country,na 2015 election him dey talk abt?Yorubas need to think well abt hw to run our own country and stop been nigeria...

Punk! Wat da f**k u saying??

The looter-in-chief of Lagos treasury is spewing rubbish again,must he remain blind to good decisions of government just because he nurses a delusional ambition of having his ACN control the federal government?

LT SHANGY:
Punk! Wat da f**k u saying??

Open ur eye to read well or grab ur lens glasses.........

Zet72: . see as his lips black, this guy don smoke die

The man na chain smoker nau

tomakint: This is why I keep saying excess puffing of cocaine is not good for the brain! Now see wetin Asiwaju dey yearn now

Guy is Taharqa still in ikenna's net

He eventually removed GEJ ,put buhari there and put himself their now with the help of the God and his people!