[size=14pt]We won’t impeach Jonathan - Ciroma[/size]
•I’m not desperate for power -President
Written by Idowu Samuel and Christian Okeke, Abuja
Tuesday, 02 November 2010

THE Northern Leaders Political Forum (NLPF) said on Monday that it was no longer interested in the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan on the basis of the one-week ultimatum given to him to resign some weeks ago.

The Forum said it was more particular about how to ensure a northern presidency in 2011 than calling for Jonathan’s impeachment, stating that the North has no time on its side to do that.

The leader of the Forum, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, made this known in Abuja during an interview with newsmen, stating that a Northern presidency in 2011 would have put paid to the agitation and rising temper on the issue of zoning in Nigeria.

Ciroma said the North was not joking about its clamour for Northern presidency, disclosing that it had never been more challenged to pursue a political cause than now on the necessity to ensure that one of the four presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got the presidential slot of the party for the coming election.

He said the PDP was only pretending not to fully recognise zoning, as, according to him, the outcome of its primaries would confirm to Nigerians that zoning exists as a political arrangement meant to foster unity, better understanding and harmony among the component units of the country.

Ciroma said the North believed that President Jonathan was about using its slot in a manner that would deprive it of presidential power for more than 12 years, despite allegedly sacrificing so much to entrench the presidency of former President Olusegun Obassanjo for eight years, and hence was not prepared to give up on clamour to take over the presidential power in 2011.

Ciroma recounted how the deal on zoning was struck under former President Obasanjo, stating that zoning arrangement on a two-term basis was struck by PDP stakeholders in 2002 with the incumbent president in attendance.

He said: “It is two terms, because in 2002, when former President Obasanjo wanted a second term, he called a meeting of the expanded caucus of the PDP. About 84 people attended. All, except two people, agreed.

“And those people agreed that President Obasanjo should get a second term, and that the zoning and the rotation should be based on two terms. So, there is no doubt about this. They are on paper, and it was then under the leadership of Obasanjo. This president (Jonathan) was in attendance representing his governor (Alamieyeseigha). He was in attendance in that meeting which agreed to zoning and to rotation.

“I am saying that I know more about PDP than him (Jonathan). I was there when PDP was formed.  And I have been in this PDP all this time. And I have not been an insignificant member of the PDP and I can never deny what I know to be the truth.  And the truth is that there was zoning even before Obasanjo was elected and there was zoning which reconfirmed Obasanjo as president.”

He dismissed speculations that the team had zoned the Middle Belt candidates out of reckoning in consideration of the choice of presidential candidate for the North, adding that the race for now was limited to only the four who collected the PDP nomination forms to contest in the 2011 presidential election.

He specifically said both General Ibrahim Babangida and Dr Bukola Saraki were in the reckoning on the issue of consensus candidacy and that they were part of the presidential aspirants who the ‘wise men’ were collecting data on.

He said: “We have been going round the North. We have been to every state except two. Niger State and Nasarawa states, to tell them about the problem of producing a consensus candidate to seek their advice on how to produce a consensus candidate.

“We have now got a report of what people’s views are all over the North. Now, the committee will sit down to consider the report as one of the inputs into the process of choosing a candidate. We have not been in a hurry because we don’t want to catch coin; we think it is better to do it thoroughly than to do it quickly.”

Ciroma said because of age factor, he would not join issues with Clark, noting that the matter at hand demanded the understanding of the South-South zone of the federation.

Ciroma said: “The South-South may not have produced the president but this argument does not affect the issue before us. The issue before us in PDP is that there is a zoning and rotation policy and that policy is actually being implemented right now. It was implemented to elect president Obasanjo twice.

“When he tried to get prolongation of his regime, we all refused in order to maintain the zoning and rotation policy and he too had to obey zoning and rotation by bringing a candidate from Katsina. He is from the North, so we agreed. The time allocated to the North was eight years, which is equivalent to the time allocated to the South for which Obasanjo served, eight years.”

[b]Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, said that as the race for the presidency in 2011 gathered momentum, it was to be expected that some persons would naturally begin to be dangerously anxious to the extent of hitting some of the aspirants below the belt.

However, he said he did not care about his personal safety, but that the safety and security of the citizenry, with regards to the age-long aspirations of development.

Jonathan, who stated this on his Facebook account, noted that it was not his intention to garner votes of the electorate through mudslinging or blackmail, but through performance and the realisation of a promise that through him, every Nigerian, regardless of circumstances of birth, state of origin, parental background, access to power and money, could contribute his or her quota to the unity and progress of the country.

The president observed that by nature and upbringing, desperation was not one of his credentials, and likened politically-motivated attacks against him to those targeted to make Americans afraid of President Barack Obama by persons he noted wanted to stop a change which time has come.

In his words: “When you hear or read of attacks on me or any other candidate, please be patriotic enough to resist the temptation of joining them to trivialise the presidential race. I urge you to very gently ask the purveyors of such fanciful tales of degradation to rather tell you about their plans for Nigeria as I have done. If they have plans, then they ought to run on them. If they do not, it means that they have none and it is trite knowledge that those who have no plan, plan only to fail and Nigeria and Nigerians in whatever conditions are no failures!”[/b]


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I can't laugh hard enough at that old bat, Ciroma. The man simply has no self respect; they gave Uncle Joe a one week ultimatum to drop out of the Presidential (because it is Ciroma's family property) or be impeached. The President basically looked them in the eye and replied, "up yours" in his now well known "say little, bite big" style, and the weak lil legs of the tribalist, senile old bat gang of Ciroma, Kaita, Bello, Yakasai etc simply buckled.

It is amusing to listen to old, tribalist fools swallow their own smelly gunge.

Only if Adamu Ciroma will realise how of no consequence his activities are.

Nothing is easier than displaying unity or forming a consensus opinion when you are in power. When you don't that is when your true ability to reach consensus and mobilise a people around a common agenda is truly tested.

Siddon look na dog name. We are waiting and watching in ernest.

This ciroma speaks b4 he reasons: impeach gej, we will not impeach gej. Desperation for power by ciroma. and co. Yeye pple

This ciroma speaks b4 he reasons: impeach gej, we will not impeach gej. Is the National Assembly ciroma's hand towel he can use at will. Desperation for power by ciroma. and co. Yeye pple

All their missile don finish. Peopl wey go soon die finish.