Tambuwal: APC warns FG against
compounding illegality by employing dirty tactics
The All Progressives
Congress (APC) has warned the Federal Government to desist from compounding
illegality by
inducing members of the
House of Representatives to sign a paper seeking to reconvene the House ahead
of the
Dec. 3rd adjourned
date.
”We have heard from the
grapevine that the FG is inducing legislators with a view to reconvening the
House, but this
will amount to piling
illegality upon illegality since only a resolution by all principal officers of
the House can reconvene
the house,” the party
said in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
”We cannot put anything
beyond a government that will unlawfully withdraw the security details of the
country’s number four citizen, who has not
been removed as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, simply because he
decamped from the ruling party to
the opposition. For as long as he remains Speaker, Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
is entitled to all the statutory perks of
his office,” it said.
APC accused the
Administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of ruling by vindictiveness,
rather than in accordance with the rule of law.
The party said despotism,
arbitrariness and impunity are the watch words of the Jonathan Administration,
hence it has
desecrated most national
institutions, including the judiciary, and has now put the legislature in its cross
hair.
”The legislature is one
of the last standing institutions after the onslaught of the ravaging Jonathan
Administration, which has nothing but contempt for
the concept of the separation of powers, the rule of law and perception of the
country by the international community.
”For this government, it
is power for the sake of power, not for the achievement of anything ennobling.
That is why the police and SSS details of a man
who remains the country’s number four can be removed without consideration to
what the law says.
That is why public funds
will be used to induce lawmakers to sign for the reconvening of the House when
it is clear that only the
principal officers, and
not even the Speaker alone, can reconvene the House before the adjourned date,”
it said.
APC said it would not be
surprised if the lawless, vindictive and predictable Jonathan Administration
will even prevent the Speaker from accessing his residential quarters,
offices and even the planes in the official fleet for carrying out his official
assignments.
”This President has said
publicly that he does not give a damn. This Administration has shown clearly
that it does not believe in the rule of law. Therefore it does not matter
to the President or his Administration what the civilized world thinks of the
country, as long as he can have his way, using all sorts of dirty tactics
including unbridled corruption that is the hallmark of the Administration.
”We are therefore calling
on all concerned citizens to condemn what is happening in our country today
before one desperate power monger brings the country crashing down on all of us. This is because
even if the Jonathan Administration is voted out of office next year, it
will take a long time to reverse the harm that is being done to national institutions,
which have become punitive tools in the hands of an increasingly despotic
leader,” the party said
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