The Presidency
yesterday berated APC Chieftain and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator
Bola Tinubu for demanding the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan.
A statement by the
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe,
said it was clear that Tinubu and other leaders in the All Progressive Congress
who made the statement were merely seeking to enthrone anarchy in Nigeria.
The statement
read in parts: “The assertion by Senator Tinubu at a political rally in
Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday that in “civilized” societies, the President
should have resigned is unfounded and lacking in historical precedence. We
challenge him to tell Nigerians which part of his “civilized” world has there
been a call on a President to resign during an on-going war.
“When terrorists
attacked the United States of America in September 2001, leaders of the
Democratic Party did not demand a resignation of President George Bush but
rather they rose in defence of the American nation to support the various
measures taken by the President to defeat the Al Qaeda terrorists.
“It is perhaps
necessary to remind the APC leader that it was leading members of his party who
vehemently opposed and openly criticized the proscription of the Boko Haram
sect by the Federal Government in 2013 with some of them even going as far as
describing it as a move against the North while others tried to incite the
Civil Society to condemn this anti-terrorists act.”
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