Pan-Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, on Thursday asked members of the National Assembly to reject President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to extend the emergency rule in the three North-East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, that have been ravaged by the activities of Boko Haram.
The northern body argued that the current ploy by the President was aimed at disenfranchising northerners ahead of the 2015 general elections.
The Forum noted that the request of the President had become a routine exercise rather than the solution, asking the National Assembly not to approve the request for the third time.
“It is really unfortunate and worrisome that the Federal Government appears not to have a better solution or strategy to end this menace than imposition of emergency rule, which has made no significant impact on the effort to restore peace and order,” the ACF said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim, on Thursday in Kaduna,
Adducing reasons why the National Assembly must not approve the request, the Northern body argued that the state of emergency appeared to have provided the terrorists the opportunity to be more “vicious, callous and daring in their dastardly activities of seizing more Nigerian territories without appreciable resistance from the Military.”
The forum added that Jonathan’s statement on why the emergency rule should be extended, was an indication that the strategy had failed.
The ACF also frowned on the National Assembly’s inability to monitor the emergency rule slammed on the affected states so far.
Besides, the body knocked former Federal Information Commissioner and Ijaw Chief, Edwin Clark, over his recent call that the President imposed full emergency rule on the states of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno, including sacking the governors of the states.
Source: Punchng
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