The
Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has challenged
other notable Nigerians to speak out on the present leadership crisis
afflicting the country as we all stand to
go under should Nigeria cave in to the relentless pressure from bad and
corrupt leadership. The party says that time has come for Nigerians,
pushed to the wall by the large-scale impunity and corruption pervading
the polity at present, too react so as to save Nigeria from impending
perdition.
In
a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity
Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that it takes good men
to remain quiet for evil to continue, as is the case in the country at
present. It warns that those who live in stoking the embers of hate and
division so as to continue to stay in power and enrich themselves at the
expense of Nigerians will get consumed in the fire they have lit.
“We
feel that the present situation where gargantuan leadership mess,
monumental impunity and overwhelming corruption are being perpetrated on
the system by the present PDP government has reached a point Nigerians
cannot keep quiet any more. We believe that the battered economy that
has made Nigerian citizens destitute while enriching the cabals that
control state power in Nigeria needs to be challenged. We believe that
the rank impunity and outlawry that the present incompetent PDP federal
government employs to batter Nigerians to continue tolerating it needs
to be challenged. We believe that the charade, confusion and failure
that has hit the Jonathan government is enough to nudge Nigerians to
speak out, as had the former president and Leader of PDP, General
Olusegun Obasanjo, recently did.
“At a time bare criminality and
massive corruption have been brought to deface the true face of
governance, we feel that other Nigerians must speak out to ensure the
present drift is arrested and the country steered aright for the sake of
the present generation and the generations yet to come. While we share
the general public view that Obasanjo remains a poor example of good
governance, as other PDP leaders, we also believe, with millions of
Nigerians that he merely summarized the views millions of Nigerians
share on the present state of affairs of the drifting country. We join
other Nigerians to demand that the present government respond
convincingly the issues raised by Obasanjo in his letter. We state the
issues are too strong to be swept under the carpet, as the present
Jonathan government usually does.
“But
besides the Obasanjo letter, Lagos APC feels that time has come for
Nigerians to rise with a deafening voice against the rising impunity and
the deliberate defacing of governance with huge acts of corruption and
the inciting of Nigerians against each other; all in an effort to
promote the personal interests of the very cabal that is destroying the
country at present. We feel it is time Nigerians speak out against the
contrived impunity deployed to Rivers State. It is time for Nigerians to
speak out against the callous cleansing of the treasury to favour
cronies, court fawners and hirelings of the present federal government.
It is time for Nigerians to speak out against the manipulation of the
judiciary, not only to protect the electoral loot of the PDP and its
cohorts but to free killers, thieves and corrupt politicians from legal
sanctions just to meet the inordinate ambition of the present
government. We feel Nigerians must now rise up against a hollow,
incompetent, clueless government which now lives in stoking ethnic and
religious sentiments so as to remain in power.
“Lagos
APC believes that fifteen years is a huge time to waste in the life of a
nation and Nigerians must come to the reality that the colossal failure
of the present government and previous PDP governments are enough
signal for change, which APC stands to provide. But before then, we
believe that the Nigerian ship must be saved from certain perdition.
Respectable voices should shun the nectars and honey being freely
distributed by the Jonathan government to compromise leading Nigerian
voices and continue perpetrating horrible infractions on the Nigerian
system. We urge every voice to speak up now or else, remain complicit in
the on-going destruction of Nigeria.”
Source: http://olorisupergal.com/speak-up-now-to-save-nigeria-lagos-apc-tells-nigerian-leaders/
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