WHY PARTY LAMBASTS PRESIDENT JONATHAN

The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) on Monday condemned President Goodluck Jonathan over police invasion of the National Assembly on Thursday November 20.

PDM in a statement signed by its National Chairman, Bashir Ibrahim, said the incident would go down in Nigeria’s history as the day of infamy at the National Assembly, when lawmakers were locked out of the parliament by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of President Jonathan.

The party further said Nigerians watched with anxiety and disbelief as the number four citizen in the country, the Speaker of the House of representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and other lawmakers were tear-gassed by officials of the Nigeria Police Force whose primary duty is to protect citizens and enforce the law.

The party which consists mainly of the political associates of former Chief of General Staff, Major General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, said the kind of lawlessness and abuse of executive power had never happened in Nigeria before, stating that it was the lowest point in the history of democracy in Nigeria.

PDM posited that the lawmakers answered the national call to duty and suspended a recess in order to deliberate on President Jonathan’s request to extend emergency rule in three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe only to be tear gassed by police.

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