APC orders members to block Jonathan’s bills

• Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:28
• Written by rom Azimazi Momoh Jimoh and Adamu Abuh, Abuja

• Category: National
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• Directs stoppage of 2014 budget, confirmation of service chiefs, ministerial nominees

• Urges resort to self-help if ‘impunity’ persists

• Lauds Amaechi’s courage despite  ‘serial unprovoked assaults’

• PDP accuses opposition party of inviting anarchy 

OUTRAGED at what it considered as President Goodluck Jonathan’s encouragement of lawlessness in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday urged its members in the National Assembly to block all his legislative proposals.

   Such proposals include the President’s request for the passage of the 2014 Budget and the confirmation of all nominees to military and civilian positions.

   According to the APC, this should be the position “until the rule of law and constitutionalism is restored in Rivers State in particular and Nigeria in general.”

  The members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition APC gave these directives yesterday as they rose from an emergency meeting in Abuja. 

   In a statement issued at the end of the meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, the party specifically directed its members at the National Assembly to ensure the blockade of the 2014 Appropriation Act, the confirmation of the service chiefs and ministerial nominees until impunity allegedly being perpetrated by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-led government stopped.

   The statement read out to reporters by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also directed its members across the country to resort to self-help if the impunity persisted.

  The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described the directives by the APC’s as a direct call for anarchy and a vindication of its (PDP’s) earlier position that the APC is out to destroy the institution of democracy and the unity of the nation.

  PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said last night that with the anti-people directives, Nigerians could now see that the PDP was not crying wolf when it alerted that the APC did not mean well for the nation.

  The PDP said: “In asking that service chiefs should not be confirmed by the Senate, the APC has revealed its devilish plot to undermine the nation’s security system, create a state of anarchy and pave the way to unleash mayhem on the people.”