Northern leaders under the
aegis of the Northern
Political Forum have called
on President Goodluck
Jonathan to resign from
office or face impeachment.
The group, in a statement by
a former minister of finance,
Mallam Adamu Ciroma, said
if the President failed to
resign before the end of this
week, then the National
Assembly should commence
impeachment proceedings
against him.
In the statement, the leaders
insisted that the presidential
aspiration of Jonathan could
only be likened to the third
term ambition of former
President Olusegun
Obasanjo.
The statement reads, "We
would like to state, for the
umpteenth time, that
President Goodluck
Jonathan's desperation to be
President again in 2011 can
only take Nigeria back to the
dark days of President
Olusegun Obasanjo's third
term, with all its attendant
instability and the wasting
of innocent civilians' lives.
"Now that the President has
proven that he is incapable of
leading the nation justly and
fairly and that he is
desperate enough to want to
hang mass murder around the
neck of unnamed Northerners
to achieve his second term,
we, as citizens of this
country, have totally lost
confidence in his leadership
and hereby call on him to
immediately resign.
"If he fails to do so by the
end of the week, we call on
the National Assembly to
commence impeachment
proceedings against him with
immediate effect.
"We state, without any
equivocation that, as
Northerners and as citizens
of this country, we no longer
feel safe and secure under
his leadership."
On the Friday, October 1 bomb
attacks in Abuja, the group
said though the act was
condemnable, its members
wondered why it took place
shortly after the recent
changes in the leadership of
the nation's armed forces,
the police and State Security
Service.
The group said ex-militants
who failed to accpet the
Federal Government's
amnesty programme must not
be allowed to hide behind
unlawful agitation to take
innocent lives. It added that
such persons must be
considered as terrorists.
Attempts to obtain comments
from presidential spokesman,
Mr. Ima Niboro, failed. But
the spokesman of the
Jonathan/Sambo Campaign
Organisation, Mr. Sully Abu,
said on the telephone,
"Adamu Ciroma is one of the
prominent Nigerians who
have served this country well
both as governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria and
as minister of finance.
"We would like to remember
him as a role model for the
younger generation. We
believe that this statement
will not remove this
perception of him which the
younger generation would
have of him and the kind of
legacy he would like to leave
behind.
"That is why we find this
statement to which he
appended his name as totally
uncalled for."
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