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| Bola Tinubu |
Former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of handing a hand in the recent fracas in the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Thursday.
Premium Times reports that Tinubu, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC has asked Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan responsible for the police’s action ofpreventing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal from entering the National Assembly.
Tinubu made this known in a statement on Friday by his media office said:
“No Commissioner of Police will ever embark on such an action without the clearance of the Inspector General of police and no IGP will order his men out here without approval by the Presidency. Nigerians know where the buck stops,” he said.
“The Jonathan Presidency must take full responsibility for the attack on the leadership of the National Assembly,” he said. “This government cannot claim to be unaware of what the police would do. This gangster’s antic occurred almost at their doorstep. The Jonathan presidency can no longer play ignorance regarding the noxious things done for partisan ends.”
“Tambuwal did not have to accede to the presidential request to reconvene the House; but because he is a statesman and not a political hack, he assented so his chamber might consider this a matter of vital national importance.
“Despite the removal of the Policemen and Security team around him he still proceeded at great personal risk to answer the call of duty. He took the risk, believing his personal situation was a secondary thing when the fate of the nation comes into question.”
“Perhaps they saw this as a birthday present to Mr. President. But it is nothing but brigandage masquerading as governance. What this Presidency does not realize is how terribly it has exposed its pettiness and dictatorial penchant for elevating narrow political interests above the fate of the nation.
“There is little wonder the nation is losing ground to Boko Haram. This government has allowed and even welcomed the downward slide. If seriously committed to breaking the spine of this insurgency, the Jonathan government would have ensured that the House met without disturbance or partisan rancour.”
“Instead, Jonathan and his men used the gravest armed threat the nation has suffered in forty years, to lay a partisan political trap for one single man instead of allowing the House to deliberate for the good of 170 million people hoping for a way out of the growing carnage.”
Blasting President Jonathan of neglecting the challenges in the country and facing other matters, Tinubu said:
“The priorities of the Jonathan Presidency are as wrong as wrong can get. Their actions are devoid of national purpose. They reek of pungent ambition. A weakness of character now permeates national leadership.”
According to him, the most notable achievement of the Jonathan government had been to bring democracy to its knees, stressing “This is not the hallmark of a President but the work of a potentate.”
Yesterday, security operatives prevented the house Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal and lots of other lawmakers’ from gaining access into the House of Representatives complex in Abuja.
Loyalists to the lawmakers, however were not having any of that as they decided to scale the locked gate, gained access into the building and eventually brought the speaker inside the building so as to consider the president’s letter seeking an extension of emergency rule in the three northeast states of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno.
Meanwhile it has been reported that the Presidency has summoned Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba over the incident.
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