A chieftain of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the six years Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has steered the wheel of the nation’s ship as the most disastrous in the history of Nigeria. Eze reached this conclusion in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
While noting that Nigerians were seeing a pervasive atmosphere of gloom when they should have been celebrating 54 years of nationhood, Eze argued that citizens of the country were groaning day and night under the wicked rule they are being subjected to through the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
He maintained that the government has abdicated its responsibility to the people, and in every way showed the wickedness of its reign.
His statement reads in part, “To say that Nigeria is currently at the crossroads – confused and not knowing what tomorrow portends, occasioned by the visionless and misguided leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the centre – is to say that appropriate words to describe the state of our nation under an uncaring and corrupt government can’t be found.
“Today, we have a government that cannot protect or guarantee our security as contained in the Constitution,” he stated.
“Under this administration, the civil war years can be described as heaven, as Nigerians are killed in droves today, without any solution at sight! Under this administration, Nigerians are so divided in both tribal and religious matters!
“Salaries of civil servants are not paid! Graduates are produced in millions yearly without any plan of employment for them.
“Instead of allowing these unfortunate graduates to live in peace, they are being defrauded by government agencies, while a good number has lost their lives in their search for non-existent jobs,” Eze stated.
The APC stalwart lampooned President Jonathan for nursing the ambition to be re-elected next year, saying it is dishonourable “since he signed an agreement not to seek re-election and publicly reaffirmed that decision in newspaper interviews while begging Nigerians to give him a chance in 2011.”
“After spending six years in office by 2015, he is still offering himself to contest the 2015 presidential election, which if he wins, will make him to rule the country for ten years against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that stipulates that nobody should rule the country for a period exceeding eight years,” Eze said.
He reminded President Jonathan of his recent statement while reacting to calls from some quarters for him to seek re-election: “In deciding on an appropriate response to such calls, I will place the greater interests of national harmony, cohesion, unity, security, political stability, progress, equity, justice and fairness above any personal ambition or sectional agenda.”
According to the politician, Jonathan “must know that his contesting will not be in the greatest interest of national harmony. He must, therefore, perish the thought if he really loves Nigeria and wishes to promote the greatest interest of national harmony.”
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