Impeach Jonathan now, APC urges lawmakers

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has 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 in Lagos, Sunday, by its Interim National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is
issuing this 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.

"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."

Via: Vanguard