“Mr. President, You Have One Week, Resign Or Be Impeached” - CDC

A pressure team, The Concerned Democrats of Conscience (CDC), have actually asked the Nigerian President, Dr.  Goodluck Jonathan to voluntarily resign from workplace or face impeachment by the National Assembly over the current unrest in Rivers State. According to them, the President has one week to do this.

Ibrahim Modibbo, the National Coordinator of CDC, speaking at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, claimed that the show of shame at the Rivers State House of Assembly and the proceeding dilemma in the state was a cause for trouble.

Hear him:

“As Democrats of Conscience, we shall struggle to fight against tyranny, despotic governance and authoritarian mindset of those vested with democratic power in Nigeria. We want to stand and be counted in support of total democracy or nothing else.

“The latest onslaught against Governor Rotimi Amaechi seems to suggest a desperate voyage or better still an ego trip mostly practised by people who are consumed in senseless but highly avoidable conflicts.

“President Jonathan’s silence in the face of serial humiliation of Governor Amaechi seems to suggest that the Presidency is comfortable with the acute abuse of the Constitution, flagrant rape on the rule of law with its attendant speedy decline of law and order in Rivers State.

“Consequently, we want to give President Jonathan one week ultimatum to resign, failure which we call on the National Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings”.

According to the group, Mr President’s crimes include:

1. Denial of complicity in the crisis, especially since it has been said that Mr President alluded to a limited understanding of the tenets of parliamentary proceedings on the part of the anti-Amaechi five.

2. The ceding of oil wells of Rivers State to his home state of Bayelsa and t

3. The suspension of Amaechi by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Modibbo also condemned the silence of the President when those he described as “some terrorists who masquerade as ex-militants with juicy oil contracts from the Federal Government, openly rebelled and protested against the Governor in Port Harcourt as the police watched with flagrant helplessness.”

“In a decent society, the President ought to have been worried when his wife, Patience, took over the state by blocking almost all the important roads, including the one leading to the Government House for 10 days,” Modibbo said.

Mr President, according to the CDC, your time starts now.

- Nigeriana