NASS Resolution, Buhari should  Quit now- Secondus

......need no further evidence of a failed government.

The National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to quit the stage now that it's evident that he cannot hold the government and the country together.

Reacting to the Tuesday's resolutions of the National Assembly threatening to invoke their constitutional powers on the President if a number of constitutional infringements are not quickly addressed and stemmed, Prince Secondus said that there is no further confirmation to the fact that the President is presiding over a collapsed administration.

In a statement from his media office signed by media Adviser Îke Abonyi, the PDP National leader said that the position of the parliament reflects clearly that of a cross section of Nigerians and should be respected.

Prince Secondus contended that even though the position of the legislators is delayed in coming given the damage already done to democracy and the country by the purposeless administration, the lawmakers still deserve some commendations for standing up for democracy and rule of law.

"Evidence are abound globally that by parliamentary powers the resolution of the National Assembly means that the people have lost confidence in the President and he should quit.

"We in the opposition have been saying it interminably that this government has no direction and does not mean well for the country.

According to Prince Secondus, all lovers of democracy should queue behind the National Assembly at this critical time in our political challenge and put pressure on the President to leave the stage now and save our democracy and the country.

He said that this government has exhibited all traits of a failed administration and did not need to wait for the parliament to give it a quit notice.

"History is a witness that when a government is bereft of ideas and still  wants to cling on to power, it resorts to use of brute force, intimidation and harassment of opponents, a quality we have seen very blatantly in this regime.

The PDP National Chairman asserted that a supposed civilian government that does not want institutions of democracy to strive should be called its exact name dictatorship.

He said that the PDP is privy to various clandestine moves including raising a special killer squad to further cow or even eliminate opposition leaders including the National Chairman to pave way for the APC agenda of hoisting a one party system on the country.

“The legislature and the Judiciary are the two main arms of any democratic government all over the World, but this administration has deliberately made the operations of the two very tasking in the last three years.

“How do you explain the assault on the nation's Senate by an ostensibly Executive backed hoodlums who not only disrupted proceedings but abducted the mace the symbol of parliamentary authority, the framing up of the Senate President and some of his vocal colleagues in an armed robbery and other related criminal cases or the forceful infiltration of homes of Justices and Judges at the wee hours of the night with arms by operatives of a supposedly democratic administration.

Finally, the PDP boss urged the National Assembly to quickly invoke their powers on the President and avert further bruises to the nation's democratic advancement.

Signed

Ike Abonyi

SA Media to the National Chairman (08033018473)

ikeabonyi2001@gmail.com.

......calls them administration of frame up


The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has sent a strong statement to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, that there will be no general election in 2019 if July 14 gubernatorial election in Ekiti state is rigged.


Prince Secondus said while inaugurating a high powered Ekiti state gubernatorial campaign council at the party National Headquarters in Abuja on Monday that the performance of PDP in Ekiti state makes the contest a smooth run.


He said that the party is aware that despite the negligible presence of APC in Ekiti, the party is determined to connive with the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to manipulate and thwart the will of the people.


In the address titled "Nigeria democracy ambushed, dark days are here with us” Secondus said "the caliber of names drawn up as members of this council shows in an unmistaken terms the importance the party attaches to this exercise"

"Ekiti state means so much to our party because of the strategic position it occupies in that geopolitical region and the fact that it's a test run election ahead of Osun state governorship election in September and the general elections in less than one year from now.


He said that APC is planning in their own words to capture Ekiti at all cost but noted that "Part of the costs has started manifesting with the shooting carried out at their own rally on Thursday last week which happened to be a continuation of the violence they launched on themselves and the state since their primaries last month"



Prince Secondus said that the attitude of APC now is that of "a drowning man desperate to survive and whose posture is if I cannot make it let me go down with others'


The PDP boss called on the international community and all lovers of democracy to show more than passing interest in what is going on in Nigeria today and watch as our democracy is being violated and ambushed.

"In this country now, the opposition and anybody holding dissenting views from that of the small clique of persons hanging on to power today have been marked either to be framed up for criminal offenses or for corruption.


"A sitting Governor in Rivers state, Nyesom Wike had cried out recently that there is attempt to assassinate him but his case was treated with levity only for Nigerians to witness a high profiled failed assassination been attempt in Ekiti last week.


He said that PDP is also privy to the secret grand plan of the APC government to raise a special killer squad to kill opponents and disperse rallies especially in the area where they expect PDP rallies to intimidate their own.

According to him, "the motive of all these deliberate Police state being established by the ruling party is obvious; to distract and disorganize the opponent to enable them hold on to power.


"Never, not even in the draconian days of the military rule was number three citizen of the country and an incumbent governor framed up for armed robbery.


"This government has become a frame up administration. Senator Rabiu Kwakwaso's aide was locked for weeks where they were searching for things to frame him up; Senators Dino Melaye and Shehu Sani have all been framed up for being vocal against unjust system being perpetuated by this administration government. The deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has had his guest house ransacked where they were looking for something to frame him up.


Despite their immunities a guest house in Akwa Ibom was once ransacked by operatives in search of frame up documents. Ditto Governor Wike has had to seek court protection to halt search in his house. Governor Fayose has just alerted the nation of plans to frame him up in the APC rally shooting. Nigerians should watch and be ready for the sacrifice to save not just our democracy but the country. What is however certain is that victory is ours in the end because Nigeria cannot afford this APC journey any longer.



Signed

Ike Abonyi

SA Media to the National Chairman