Jonathan would have created chaos in the country and forced Nigerians
to submit to a reign of terror, chieftain of the APC in Lagos State,
chief Ayo Akande, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Akande said Nigerians should rather commend the APC for offering
'robust opposition,' rather than condemning the party for the recent
directive to its members in the National Assembly to stand against the
President's bills.
He said, "Most decisions taken by the APC as the major opposition
party in the country are people-oriented and they are aimed at freeing
the Nigerian masses from the shackles of economic, social and
political oppression of the Peoples Democratic Party-led
administration. So the APC deserves commendation rather than
condemnation by a section of the Nigerian people.
"If not that the APC has been vigilant, President Jonathan and his PDP
would have thrown the country into a state of anarchy and would have
made Nigerians to submit to a fate of hopelessness and misrule."
The APC chieftain said the directive of the party's leadership for the
National Assembly members to block the passage of the 2014 budget was
just as a weapon to make the Federal Government do the right thing.
"If you are fighting for the cause of the generality, you fight with
everything in your arsenal. You fight with your teeth and nails and
your legs. The import of the directive was for President Goodluck
Jonathan to realise that good governance, embedded with fairness,
equity and justice is the right of all Nigerians," he explained.
He queried alleged harassment of ex-Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, by the State Security Service over
"his caution against rigging in the 2015 elections."
According to him, Jonathan should be receptive to other people's
views, stressing that it was only by doing so that the people can
contribute to the development of the country.
He described the APC as a party with well-defined programmes that
would provide democracy dividends for Nigerians come 2015.
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