The All Progressives Congress have called on its members in the National Assembly to "block all legislative proposals" by the PDP led government in the country owing to the allegation that the PDP led government against the latter in the crisis rocking the Rivers State. The party (APC) made the call after rising from its 8th Interim National Executive Committee Regular Meeting on Thursday, 23rd January, 2014 in Abuja.
The Party in its six-paragraph communique made available to the public express dissatisfaction over what the Party see as "the brazen lawlessness and violations of the Constitution" against the Governor Amaechi led APC government in Rivers State. Reading the communique, The Interim National Secretary of the Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the call on its Party members to stop further legislative proposals by the Federal government will continue "until the rule of law and constitutionalism is restored in Rivers State in particular and Nigeria in general."
Among dignitaries at the meeting were General Muhammadu Buhari Rtd, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Governors of Rivers, Lagos, Edo, Nasarawa, Kwara, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Sokoto, Ekiti, Ogun and the Deputy Governors of Oyo, Imo, Kano and Zamfara and other Party leaders. The meeting was chaired by the Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and attended by the full compliment of the Interim National Executive Committee along with the leadership of the APC in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
Details Of The All Progressives Congress Communique Below.
COMMUNIQUÉ ARISING FROM THE 8TH MEETING OF THE INTERIM NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) THURSDAY, 23RD JANUARY, 2014
The APC Interim National Executive Committee held its 8th regular meeting today. In attendance were General Muhammadu Buhari Rtd, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Governors of Rivers, Lagos, Edo, Nasarawa, Kwara, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Sokoto, Ekiti, Ogun and the Deputy Governors of Oyo, Imo, Kano and Zamfara and other Party leaders. The meeting was chaired by the Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and attended by the full compliment of the Interim National Executive Committee along with the leadership of the APC in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
The National Executive Committee of the APC commended the courage, maturity and political sagacity of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in the face of serial unprovoked and unwarranted assaults on his person, his constitutional rights and those of the Government and People of Rivers State. The conduct of Governor Amaechi represents our Party’s maturity and compliance with the rule of law in response to escalating impunity. The APC is very proud of him.
Any cursory observer of events in Rivers State since February, 2013 will be left in no doubt as to the culture of lawlessness and impunity being promoted and supported by the Presidency, and executed by the State Commissioner of Police Joseph Mbu, who has become the defacto military Governor of Rivers State and sole administrator of the PDP in the State.
A few instances of the brazen lawlessness and violations of the Constitution will suffice here – the forceful dispersal of 13,201 newly recruited teachers in the Port Harcourt Stadium using tear gas; blockading the entrance to the Government House in Port Harcourt and forcing the State Governor to use another entrance; preventing an aircraft chartered by the State Governor from taking off, alleging that the Governor was trying to smuggle out a legislator wanted by the Police, no apology was offered to the Governor, the disruption of a peaceful rally during which Senator Magnus Abe was shot with intent to kill; the several disruptions of Save Rivers Group rallies, and the unlawful detention of anybody perceived to be a sympathizer of Governor Rotimi Amaechi, while allowing pro-Jonathan an Anti-Amaechi groups to organize rallies unmolested.
The National Executive Committee of the APC has now resolved that if this acts of impunity and lawlessness continue unabated and the Police persists in being as an enforcement arm of the PDP to the detriment of our members, it will have no alternative than to ask our teeming members all over the country and especially in Rivers State to take whatever steps that are necessary to protect their lives and property.
Following on the forgoing and in view of the joint resolutions of the National Assembly on Rivers State, and other constitutional breaches by the Presidency, the APC hereby directs its members in the National Assembly to block all legislative proposals including the 2014 Budget and confirmation of all nominees to military and civilian positions to public office until the rule of law and constitutionalism is restored in Rivers State in particular and Nigeria in general.
Alh. Lai Mohammed
Interim National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
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