The Congress
for Progressive Change (CPC) took notice of the impeachment threat issued to
the Nasarawa Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, by the State House of Assembly on account of the violent crisis in Agyaragu area of the
state. This appears to be a well-rehearsed plot, orchestrated by the PDP high
command, in furtherance of the political gerrymandering and destabilization
agenda of the ruling Party.
Indeed, the
Governor showed his determination to tackle the problem when he announced at a
state-wide broadcast that: it is, indeed, sad that our state is being
made to assume the status of a theatre of a communal violence, this is
regrettable and unacceptable. But the State Legislators, urged on by their National
Leaders, are committed to bringing the state into unimaginable instability with
their legislative impropriety.
As a Party, we are forced to react, through this statement, to
the admonition of well-meaning individuals and institutions on the very
precipitous path the state Legislators have chosen to tread. The Conference of
Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) queried why the CPC governor was unfairly
burdened with a problem that pre-dated his tenure and was not resolved by
previous PDP-led Administrations. Truly, on 14th April, 2000 (under
a PDP-led administration), Nasarawa state was thrown into a communal crisis in
the Agyragu area because of the location of the local Government Headquarters.
Furthermore, under the same PDP-led administration, on 18th January,
2002, the clash between two communities in the Awe Local Government saw a few
fatalities.
What is curious is that there was never any impeachment
threat on the previous PDP governors that were helmsmen during the previous
dispensations of crisis in the State. What is more, has Nigeria ever been
enveloped under the cloud of insecurity as severe as with this PDP-led Federal
Government? Yet the President has never been threatened with impeachment
because of the intractable insecurity within the Nation-space. But because of
the massive majority of the PDP in the Nasarawa House of Assembly, the
Legislators have chosen to thread the path of reckless partisanship and legislative
indiscretion to resolve a problem of the State. Indeed, this smacks of abuse of
legislative priviledge and authority!
As a Party,
we strongly believe that a noxious impeachment plot on the state Chief
Executive in a time of crisis is fore-boding and disingenuous. On the contrary,
this should be the time for greater collaborative efforts between the Executive
and the Legislature for the greater good of the people of Nasarawa State. We
therefore call on the Legislators to tread with caution.
God bless
Nigeria.
Rotimi Fashakin
(Engr.)
National
Publicity Secretary, CPC.
(Sunday, 02
December, 2012).
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