The presidency yesterday took another
swipe at former president, Olusegun
Obasanjo who last week, accused
President Goodluck Jonathan of placing
perceived political opponents under the
watchful eyes of snipers, It told Obasanjo
to show proof in that respect or shut up
forever.
In the same vein, the seat of power
warned the All Progressive Congress
(APC) to be careful in making inciting
statements and unfounded allegations
against President Goodluck Jonathan or
its members would be made to face
charges of treason.
It implicitly told former President
Olusegun Obsanjo who had last week
alleged the existence of snipers against
the president to boldly come forward and
provide proof or remain silent forever as
a coward he is.
Obasanjo had written an 18 paragraph
letter alleging series of corrupt practices
against President Jonathan.
But Special Adviser to the president on
media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati
noted in a statement yesterday said,
“President Jonathan is running a people’s
government. He does not need any
snipers. His legitimacy comes from the
people. Those who are alleging the
existence of snipers should step forward
and provide the evidence or shut up
forever and go down in history as
spineless cowards, driven by sheer greed
and indecency.
“We dismiss the APC’s call for the
President’s impeachment as
opportunistic, partisan and ill-motivated.
We call on patriots to make the necessary
distinction between such reckless
violations of civic duty and the urgent
need to protect the integrity of the
Nigerian nation against those who for
selfish reasons have declared their
readiness to stop at nothing”.
Abati described as reckless and
irresponsible the call by the APC for the
National Assembly to commence
impeachment proceedings against the
president.
He reminded the APC that as an
opposition party which remains a
minority “with doubtful credentials in the
National Assembly, knows fully well that
its attempt to hector and blackmail a
Parliament dominated by loyal members
of the President’s party, the PDP, into an
impeachment process, will come to
nothing”.
Threatening to prefer charges bordering
on treason against members of the APC,
Abati stated: “In this regard, we have
noted the undisguised threat by the APC
to foster public insurrection against the
Federal Government if pending legal cases
go against it. We urge Nigerians to take
special note of this boastful indication of
an intention to resort to lawlessness. The
Presidency warns that the APC and any
persons who make themselves its willing
tools for the breach of public order and
safety will be made to face the full
sanctions of the law.
“Those who are threatening fire and
brimstone should be ready for
consequences of treasonable action. The
APC’s false copy-cat allegation that 1, 000
snipers are being trained by the Jonathan
Administration clearly shows that they
are now in cahoots with some other
elements who are bent on discrediting
this administration and inciting the public
against it”.
The presidential spokesman said
ordinarily, the presidency wouldn’t have
dignified the party’s spokesman, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed’s “latest vituperations in the
service of his paymasters with a
response”.
He added, however, the presidency
“thought it necessary to warn that the
federal government will not standby idly
and let the nation be plunged into
unnecessary crises and political instability
because of the desperation and apparent
readiness of the APC spokesman and his
gang of power-seeking desperadoes to
sacrifice the well-being of the country on
the altar of their selfish personal
ambitions.
“The Presidency totally condemns the
decision by Alhaji Mohammed and his
party to move further beyond the bounds
of honourable and acceptable political
conduct with the senseless call for the
impeachment of a President who
continues to sincerely devote himself to
the discharge of the sacred mandate freely
given to him by Nigerians”, Abati noted.
Abati who wondered why the APC “has
cavalierly embarked on this outrageous
gambit, with scant regard for peace, order,
security and political stability in the
country” said it was “in furtherance of its
dastardly and heinous strategy of over-
heating the polity and working to cause
public disaffection against the Jonathan
Presidency with lies, false accusations and
unjustifiable indictments ahead of the
2015 general elections.
“The emptiness and hollowness of the
APC’s call for President Jonathan’s
impeachment will be obvious to all
objective and discerning Nigerians who
read through the statement issued by
Alhaji Mohammed today. It was long on
self-serving rhetoric and falsehoods, but
lacked a single clearly defined charge on
the basis of which any plausible
impeachment proceedings against the
President can be initiated”, he added.
The statement made available to
LEADERSHIP yesterday night further
reads: “All that the APC could offer in
justification of its absurd and hare-
brained impeachment call was a rehash of
its well-worn litany of baseless
accusations against the President,
including some for which culpability
should be laid squarely at the doorsteps
of its own leaders and some of their new
friends.
“The Presidency also considers it utterly
deplorable that the APC has, in its
Machiavellian desperation to seize
control of the Federal Government,
recklessly assailed the integrity and
honour of the Nigerian Judiciary in a
callous attempt to pre-empt the outcome
of the case legitimately brought against it
and some of its new friends by the PDP.
“Alhaji Mohammed’s unscrupulous effort
to drag the nation’s judiciary into its
murky political warfare and his readiness
to intimidate and blackmail members of
the bench so as to secure a favourable
outcome for his party in the pending case
clearly shows that nothing is beyond the
pale for him and the APC in pursuit of
their quest for power.
“The Jonathan Administration does not
need Lai Mohammed or the APC to
remind it of its constitutional
responsibility for the security and well-
being of Nigerians. The President will
continue to do his utmost best to achieve
positive national transformation in all
areas in spite of efforts by the opposition
to thwart or disparage the work of his
administration.
Impeach Jonathan before Nigeria
crashes -APC
But as Abati issued his statement, APC
asked the National Assembly to rise
beyond partisanship and save Nigeria
from imminent collapse by immediately
kick-starting the process of impeaching
President Goodluck Jonathan for gross
misconduct.
In a statement issued in Lagos on
yesterday by its Interim National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the
party said it is issuing the call with a high
sense of responsibility and the strong
belief that the impeachment of the
president is a legitimate constitutional
option available to the National Assembly
not only to protect the nation’s democracy
but also to ensure the country’s unity.
But President Jonathan’s party, Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has described the
call as irresponsible
Regardless, the APC said: ‘’Our country is
drifting dangerously and our people are
divided now perhaps more than at any
other point in our history, with the
exception of the civil war period. There is
a total failure of leadership, even as
insecurity, unprecedented corruption,
palpable impunity, massive
unemployment and hunger stalk the land.
‘’Since the raison d’etre of any
government is the security and welfare of
the citizenry, and the present
administration has failed to live up to the
justification of its existence, there can be
no other definition of gross misconduct
than that.
‘’Therefore, the time has come for the
head of that government, on whose desk
the buck stops, to be removed through
the provisions stipulated in the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. This is the patriotic thing to do,’’
it said.
APC warned that if the National Assembly
fails to act and do so very fast, it will share
with the clueless and feckless Jonathan
administration the eternal blame for
bringing to naught the hard work of the
nation’s heroes past and for crashing and
dashing the hopes of millions of
Nigerians, especially the youth who are
the leaders of tomorrow.
The party said it is necessary for anyone
who may say the call for the impeachment
of President Jonathan is outlandish to
remember that all it takes to torpedo this
democracy is for this increasingly-
paranoid government to get a pliant Judge
to put a judicial stamp on just one of its
litany of illegalities, thus setting the
country ablaze, adding: ‘’And there are
many such Judges as we can see by some
recent events, despite our warnings that
the efforts of the current CJN to clean up
the judiciary must not be sabotaged by a
few pliant Judges.’’
‘’One such scenario is the present
challenge in court by the PDP of the
defection to the APC of five state
governors. The PDP has gone to court
fully aware of the ruling of the Supreme
Court after the party (PDP) attempted to
make then Vice President Atiku Abubakar
to lose his seat and to also strip him of his
privileges following his defection to the
ACN.
‘’What then can be the sole motive behind
the PDP’s action: To plunge Nigerian into
chaos! This is why we issued a strong
warning in our statement of Dec. 5th thus:
‘We wish to state unequivocally that
should the PDP go ahead with this plan,
there will be widespread repercussions as
the APC has resolved that henceforth,
every act of impunity of the PDP and the
Presidency will be met with stiff
resistance in the form of a vociferous
telegraphing of people power, the likes of
which have not been witnessed in these
parts’.
‘’We reiterate those words today, and
make bold to say that not even the
revelation by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, that snipers are being trained
secretly and that 1,000 people have been
placed on political watch, will deter us
from saving this democracy, which was
watered by the sweat and blood of many
patriots, long before this generation of
opportunists stormed the political scene,’’
it said.
Call for Jonathan’s impeachment
irresponsible - PDP
In its response, the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday
described the call for President Goodluck
Jonathan’s impeachmen as irresponsible.
According to the national publicity
secretary, Chief Oliseh Metuh, who spoke
with Leadership on phone, the opposition
APC was scared of losing in 2015, hence
their resort to causing confusion in the
land.
Speaking further in a statement which
Metuh later released, the PDP described
the call by APC for impeachment of
Jonathan “as irresponsible, immature, self
seeking and part of their larger agenda to
truncate democracy in Nigeria.
“Upon their realization that they will not
win in the 2015 general elections
following the failure of their plans to
break the ranks and strength of the PDP,
they now seek to use all means to cause
confusion in the land.
“The APC knows the implication of the call
which is to cause massive turmoil and
destroy the unity of our dear nation.
Nevertheless, the PDP is ready, willing and
able to stop them in their track.”

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Jonathan Good luck.,........time is running out on you.
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militant presido

I was expecting an outright denial. So it may well be true, then?

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Jonathan Good luck.,........time is running out on you.
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Forget it! Goodluck will Be there till 2019.
When the political forces properly align you will realise that those who cannot win their polling units for their own daughters won't count.
Obasanjo has disagreed with every known Nigerian President Living or Dead even The president Elect late MKO was not spared.

Obasanjo likes writing but anytime someone else writes to him he takes it personal .
When you read El rufai Accidental Public servant you will realise that any leader that trusts Obas-anjo does so at this own Peril

Anasko: militant presido

To rule a country with so many Lai-lairs and hypocritical past leaders you might sometimes be required to show that humility is not stupidity

I dont know what to believe or think again. Every is just getting 'shitter'.

HNosegbe: I was expecting an outright denial. So it may well be true, then?

During OBJ time Bola ige
Harry Marshal and countless politicians were gunned down .

GEJ time , the Opposition politicians give live interviews and now control the airwaves

OBJ is just hallucinating. Not everyone is Unforgiving like him. Ask Audu Ogbe he was almost a victim

This epistle is long o. In another gospel, Lamido an Obj acolyte says APC is an association of a bunch of angry politicians. How true? Take the impeachment noise as a guage. As for Papa Iyabo, the best response to him will be to open up all his fraud cases includings Iyabo's 100mil case.

ochejoseph:
During OBJ time Bola ige
Harry Marshal and countless politicians were gunned down .

GEJ time , the Opposition politicians give live interviews and now control the airwaves

OBJ is just hallucinating. Not everyone is Unforgiving like him. Ask Audu Ogbe he was almost a victim

Hmmmm

That obj think everybody is like him.