During the weekend,
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive
Change, CPC, have advice President Goodluck Jonathan not to impose a state of
emergency on some of the northern states, considered worst hit by activities of
insurgents rather he should dialogue in dealing with the Boko Haram crisis.
ACN’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, while reacting to reported plan to impose state of emergency on
some states in the North, said if the imposition of emergency rule on the
affected states was the only viable option left for President Jonathan to
tackle the crisis, then he should step down.
The party said, “imposing state of
emergency on the states that have been mentioned, like Borno, Yobe and Nasarawa
states will amount to shifting responsibility and unduly victimizing the
governors of those states, who have done perhaps more than the President, in
dealing with the crisis, though they are not in charge of any security apparatus”.
On its part, CPC in a statement by
National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, while opposing the plan, said
“as a party, we have noticed a dangerous trend that the states mainly embroiled
in these spates of insecurity are mainly non-PDP states which further fuels the
notion that these insurgencies are purposely orchestrated to create the
ambience for the declaration of emergency rule in the states.”
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