Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said the imposition of emergency rule in three
states is a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to
subvert constitutional democracy.
He said in a statement from his media office
yesterday that by declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa
states, President Jonathan has “intimidated and emasculated” the governors of
these states. “The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any
keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a
surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments
of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and
diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015,” Tinubu said.
“Borno and Yobe states have been literally under
armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily
by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use
the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them
from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.”
Tinubu, who is also national leader of the
opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), added that “Experience has shown
clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to
radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended
outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness.
“It has become crystal clear, even to the most
incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian
state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks
ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern
states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.”
