Northern leaders demand Jonathan’s resignation
President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration came under severe fire yesterday after two
groups accused his government of bullying and victimisation in an
effort to destabilise his political opponents.
The Ibrahim
Babangida campaign organisation said they will remain resolute and firm
in the face of what they described as “executive brutality and
intimidation” from the presidency.
The Northern
Political Leaders Forum, known as the G-15, yesterday, asked President
Jonathan to resign, in the wake of the October 1st bombings.
Following the
arrest of its coordinator on Monday, the Ibrahim Babangida campaign
organisation also said they remain resolute and firm in the face of
“executive brutality and intimidation” from the presidency.
The group called a
press conference in Abuja, yesterday, to address the allegations
leveled against Raymond Dokpesi, who was briefly arrested by the SSS on
allegations of complicity in the twin bombings.
The deputy
coordinator of the team, Kanti Bello, said the only reason why Mr.
Dokpesi is being hunted is because he rejected the appointment as
director general of the President Goodluck Jonathan campaign
organisation.
“In rejecting the
appointment, Dokpesi informed the world of his belief in the zoning
arrangement of the PDP, where the presidency stays in the north,” Mr.
Bello said.
Resign now
The northern
group, in a statement signed by Adamu Ciroma, also called Mr. Dokpesi’s
arrest a “desperate attempt to validate President Jonathan’s hasty
investigations and prove his predetermined theory right.”
The lengthy
statement rounded off by denouncing Mr. Jonathan’s administration,
saying he was “incapable of leading the nation fairly and that he is
desperate enough to want to hang mass murder around the neck of unnamed
Northerners to achieve his second term.”
The group said Mr. Jonathan should, therefore, resign or face possible impeachment proceedings in the National Assembly.
It is shameful how supposed old men could allow their inordinate quest to regain power to push them into demonstrating the emotions of children clamouring for a sweets or biscuits.
They earlier the came to terms with the fact that every Geo-political region and indeed every Nigerian has the same stake in the leadership of this nation, the better for them. Where has all the years of leadership by the North taken this nation to – where we are today!
Calls for the resignation of Jonathan over the Abuja Bombings only go to lend credence to the fact that whoever did that only intended to discredit Jonathan government and quite to the contrary, that is making him more popular as he gains the sympathy of the people.
The truth of the matter is that most of those calling for the President’s resignation have become so inured to shedding blood that the lives of those murdered on the 1st of October at Abuja were the pawns in their faceless power game.
Thy IBB Campaign Group should just shut up because we know better who should be giving answers to many deaths when he RULED this country-like Dele Giwa.
Please find some shame and cloth your old and discredited faces even for this once.
Thank you.
DOKPESI, SHOULD KNOW THAT HE HAS LOST HIS INTEGRITY,RESPECT AND HIS Ait programm of Focus Nigeria is fake.Soon he will be rubbished and dump,trust God.
We Nigerians are watching, last time it was letter bomb, many plan clash, they have come back. God will not forgive those who ever his joy is to kill others
It is indeed very regretable and unfortunate that Dokpesi has sold out because of money. He has thrown his integrity to the trash and has become a stooge in the hands of IBB and his cronies.