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| Emergency rule, ploy to subvert constitutional democracy: Tinubu |
| 2013-05-17 |
| [Nigerian Tribune] THE national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Tinubu, has descirbed the imposition of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan as a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy in the country. Tinubu, in statement entitled "Statement on the emergency rule and Nigeria's security challenges" signed by his special adviser, Sunday Dare, said the declaraton of state of emergency on the three northern states clearly revealed that "President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs, confirming what was widely speculated." He said with the declaration by President Jonathan, "it has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift." The former governor of Lagos State further added that the infamous declaration was a pointer to the 2015 calculation by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which, he said, was meant to fail right from the beginning. "The body language of the Jonathan-led administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015," Tinubu said. He also chided the Federal Government, saying it had failed to protect the lives and properties of its citizens. While condemning the declaration, Tinubu said there was nothing new in the new status, since "a state of emergency already exists in the states where military operates." |
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