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 scallywags 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.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/attack-on-govs-hold-jonathan-responsible-acn/

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Yep .he is responsible .
At the very least,can anybody tell me why that police officer mbu is still an officer?
All these happenings bear the handiwork of those the president has chosen to surround himself with.
People like anenih who has been around forever and whom you can never attribute anything good to are an albatross on his neck.
That Wike,minister for education?imagine .what good can come out of such a person .

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chimerase2:
”We will not accept the usual sophistry that President Jonathan is not in any way involved in the Rivers crisis.

So what sophistry will you accept Sir? That President Jonathan spearheaded the attack and was the one that initiated the pelting?

chimerase2: 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.

Going by this logic, we can as well blame the recent attack on Bukola Saraki (a two time governor of Kwara) on the presidency, since Jonathan is the Chief security officer.

Not forgetting that the attacks in Port Harcourt and Kwara was carried out by disenchanted youths in PDP controlled States to express their indignations and right to protest against their elected officials.

Puleeze Lai Muhammed, tell me what I don't know!

^^ Youths in Kwara attacked their own Senator

Youths in Rivers attacked visiting governors

And they call him clueless.

If a man can Visit China and hold meetings that result in investments, come back to Nigeria and host heads of states, take daily briefings from security chiefs, meet regularly with the Economic team,meet with numerous top class global business and policy leaders, take all the heat that comes with the office, do all the business deals that are usually done in Aso Rock and still have the time to meet with stone throwers to discuss the visit of four northern governors to Rivers state, then the man must have more than 24 hrs in a day as well as 3 brains to achieve these kind of feat or he must be some kind of genious.


The ACN is just a bunch of sorry losers in my opinion. The president would all the way from Abuja be directing stone throwers in port harcourt.

Lai talk is very cheap and it's nt food. Talk alone cankt give u presidency. Btw d way d opositn luk 4 power I'm afraid weda they won't sell nig. if they get it. Lai take it easy we knw u.

PapaBrowne: And they call him clueless.

If a man can Visit China and hold meetings that result in investments, come back to Nigeria and host heads of states, take daily briefings from security chiefs, meet regularly with the Economic team,meet with numerous top class global business and policy leaders, take all the heat that comes with the office, do all the business deals that are usually done in Aso Rock and still have the time to meet with stone throwers to discuss the visit of four northern governors to Rivers state, then the man must have more than 24 hrs in a day as well as 3 brains to achieve these kind of feat or he must be some kind of genious.


The ACN is just a bunch of sorry losers in my opinion. The president would all the way from Abuja be directing stone throwers in port harcourt.

Fantastic. Dis na post of the week. God bless you

^^^ ‎​M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ broda i join yu concur.

Dis liar mohammed slf