National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande
BUT for the opposition All Progressives
Congress, President Goodluck Jonathan would have created chaos in the
country and forced Nigerians to submit to a reign of terror, chieftain
of the APC in Lagos State, Chief Ayo Akande, said in a statement on
Wednesday.
Akande said Nigerians should rather
commend the APC for offering ‘robust opposition,’ rather than condemning
the party for the recent directive to its members in the National
Assembly to stand against the President’s bills.
He said, “Most decisions taken by the
APC as the major opposition party in the country are people-oriented and
they are aimed at freeing the Nigerian masses from the shackles of
economic, social and political oppression of the Peoples Democratic
Party-led administration. So the APC deserves commendation rather than
condemnation by a section of the Nigerian people.
“If not that the APC has been vigilant,
President Jonathan and his PDP would have thrown the country into a
state of anarchy and would have made Nigerians to submit to a fate of
hopelessness and misrule.”
The APC chieftain said the directive of
the party’s leadership for the National Assembly members to block the
passage of the 2014 budget was just as a weapon to make the Federal
Government do the right thing.
“If you are fighting for the cause of
the generality, you fight with everything in your arsenal. You fight
with your teeth and nails and your legs. The import of the directive was
for President Goodluck Jonathan to realise that good governance,
embedded with fairness, equity and justice is the right of all
Nigerians,” he explained.
He queried alleged harassment of
ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, by
the State Security Service over “his caution against rigging in the 2015
elections.”
According to him, Jonathan should be
receptive to other people’s views, stressing that it was only by doing
so that the people can contribute to the development of the country.
He described the APC as a party with well-defined programmes that would provide democracy dividends for Nigerians come 2015.
Source: www.punchng.com/news/apc-protecting-nigerians-against-jonathans-misrule/
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