Rivers Crisis: ACN calls for Jonathan’s impeachment
on July 10, 2013 at 12:49 pm in News

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has heaped the blame for the ongoing crisis in Rivers State on President Goodluck Jonathan and asked the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against him, for failing to live up to his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said by Jonathan’s abhorrence of the rule of law and majority rule, the latest indication of which is his unmistakable support for a group of renegade lawmakers who are fomenting trouble in Rivers State, the President has become a clear and present danger to the country’s democracy, and must be shown the way out in accordance with the Constitution.



President Jonathan; Senate President, David Mark and Speaker, House of Reps, Hon Aminu Tambuwal

”Under President Jonathan’s watch and with his tacit support, a few lawmakers dictated to majority of the members
of the Ogun State House of Assembly, which was locked for a long time. Under President Jonathan’s watch, the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum was sabotaged by his minions who declared a Governor with 16 votes a winner over the one who
scored 19 votes, in a injurious blow to the concept of democracy.

”And under his watch, five lawmakers – out of 32 – have become the majority and, simply because they have the backing of
the presidency, are now being given police protection to disrupt the proceedings of the House. As we write, Rivers state has
been taken over by current and former militants who have been unleashed to destabilize the state and cause a breakdown
of law and order, to pave the way for the imposition of a State of Emergency.

”This cannot and must be allowed to continue, hence our call on the National Assembly to move quickly to remove the source
of the crisis. Since this is no longer an intra-party dispute and because of its potentials to set the country on fire, we also call on
civil society groups, professional bodies and ordinary Nigerians to rise up and defend the rule of law and the supremacy of the
Constitution over arbitrariness,” ACN said.

The party decried the anarchy that is now reigning in Rivers, simply because the five renegade lawmakers have the backing of the
presidency, which has emboldened them to take extra-Constitutional measures to try to remove the majority-backed Speaker
of the State House of Assembly.

”Taking a cue from the presidency, the State Commissioner of Police has turned himself into a politician and abandoned his
constitutional role. Instead of providing security for the entire House to sit, he chose to back the renegades and their thugs to
unleash mayhem on their colleagues. This is what you get when a leader dons the garb of a partisan instead of being a statesman.
All sorts of minions simply follow suit,” it said.

The party said that in the aftermath of the crisis, the soldiers attached to the State House in Rivers have been withdrawn while there
are real fears that the police security will also be withdrawn by a Commissioner of Police who, apparently, no longer takes orders
from his boss.


”This is not the democracy that was watered with the blood of many Nigerians. This not what Nigerians bargained for after years of
military rule. We should not and must not allow those who are now reaping where they did not sow to reverse the little progress that
we have made,” ACN warned.
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What is this? Why do we allow nonentities like this fool they call lai mohammed speak. From what he wrote above he is really going mad.

drnoel: What is this? Why do we allow nonentities like this fool they call lai mohammed speak. From what he wrote above he is really going mad.

the only thing I can pick from lie Mohammed's rant is that ACN or APC is afraid of election. They want President Gej out of their way by all means before 2015. But God pass them. Bloody cowards.

Lai Mohammed has never been rational in his argument. The same man who condemned the state of emergency in the north, the man who didn't see anything wrong in the emergence of Tinubu's daughter as the iyaloja amidst stiff protest, he didn't condemn the interference of Ameachi with legislative proceedings. Isn't this hypocrisy? Can he proof Gej's involvement?
He must not be taken seriously. Within his party, internal democracy is extinct and in fact nonexistent. Bamidele of Ekiti has been removed as a caucus leader becos he refused to concede his gubernatorial ambition to Tinubu's bully. Local government councils in choice areas in Lagos have been converted to Tinubu's plots, and the council relocated. The man that withdrew an active senator for the wife to go? A man that is covertly preparing the wife to become the governor of the state. Mtchweee

Anyways, let me behave as if I didnt hear him

After this meeting, 5 days later - Rivers State is becoming a war zone. All hail the silent Militant.

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Lai Muhammed is a coconut head

I don't know what this man think he is, to me he's simply senseless. All this happenings are all handiwork and bad politics of Acn. I pity Ameachi for making himself available for vultures to be devoured because of the his greed. ACN plans is really working, but unfortunately against them. AMAECHI must regret kicking Jonathan below belt.