{"id":8176,"date":"2013-08-11T21:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/apc-chairman-akande-ill-mannered-rude-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2013-08-11T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:44:58","slug":"apc-chairman-akande-ill-mannered-rude-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/apc-chairman-akande-ill-mannered-rude-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Chairman, Akande Ill-Mannered, Rude \u2014 Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday described Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has a rude, ill-mannered, uncharitable and hypocritical politician.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jonathan\u2019s response came after Akande questioned his leadership capabilities, saying: \u201cI do not see President Jonathan as a\u00a0serious-minded person. Nigeria\u2019s problem today is Jonathan. I had\u00a0written him twice when I was in office as National Chairman of ACN on\u00a0issues bordering on the nation and till date he has not acknowledged\u00a0the letters.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHe takes national issues with levity. All he is concerned\u00a0about is his \u2018third term\u2019 ambition. He has reduced the totality of\u00a0Nigeria to kindergarten governance. Jonathan today is the most\u00a0powerful President in the world. He has all the powers arrogated to\u00a0him and he\u2019s still asking for more. We\u00a0want a thinking leadership in this country, and not a\u00a0kindergarten leader like President Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0But responding on Sunday, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati condemned Akande\u2019s denigration of the office of the president, and urged the opposition to be wary of laws against libel and defamation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe have noted with dismay, the continuation of efforts by leaders of the opposition to promote themselves and their party through the irresponsible denigration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the exalted Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d Abati wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interim national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande sank to a new low in this regard yesterday when he rudely and falsely described President Jonathan as a \u2018kindergarten\u2019 leader who treats national issues with levity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cChief Bisi Akande has every right to embark on a flight of fancy about the APC beating the PDP in the 2015 general elections, but he does no justice to his age and status when he resorts to propagating falsehood, wilfully insulting the president of his country, impugning his integrity and desecrating the very office which his party wishes to take over in 2015 by fair or foul means.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Abati urged \u201cChief Akande and his fellow-travellers\u201d to remember that there are laws against libel and defamation of character in the country, even if there are no legal impediments to indecorous, hypocritical and unpatriotic vituperations.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt is certainly rude, ill-mannered, uncharitable and hypocritical for Chief Akande to falsely and cavalierly allege that a president who toils tirelessly every day of the week, evolving and implementing workable solutions to Nigeria\u2019s problems, is handling national issues with levity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAlso, nothing else but gross ignorance and lack of consideration could have led Chief Akande to refer to a president who, having served as deputy governor, governor, vice president and president, has far more experience of governance at the highest level than him and his preferred \u2018candidates,\u2019 as a kindergarten leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0He added that, \u201cBy his very unguarded and intemperate outburst yesterday, Chief Akande exhibited not only an unbecoming lack of respect for the person and office of the President of his country, but also a complete disregard for the patriotic feelings of the millions of Nigerians who voted for President Jonathan and who continue to appreciate his sincere efforts to positively transform the nation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt is very sad and unfortunate that unbridled ambition for the office they constantly impugn and denigrate has blinded Chief Akande and his ilk to the visible accomplishments of the Jonathan Presidency.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cCertainly, nothing else but a manic and unscrupulous quest for power could have led them to make such accusations against a president who, who amongst other significant achievements, has been praised for his handling of the insurgency in some parts of Northern Nigeria where he has used a combination of diplomacy and targeted military force to contain the security threat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cNothing else but the relentless pursuit of narrow personal and sectional interests could lead them to make such claims about a president under whose leadership Nigeria\u2019s economy has been promoted from a low-income economy to a middl- income economy by the World Bank and whose leadership has seen the Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria increase at an annual rate of over 6 per cent since he took office.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cFinally, though President Jonathan has not indicated whether or not he is interested in a second term, Chief Akande, who has taken stock of his party and seen that they have no electable presidential material, is already trying to be clever by half by claiming the president is statute-barred from contesting in 2015, saying it will amount to a \u2018third term.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0He also said that if this is the winning strategy of the APC, Akande has every reason to panic because the issue of eligibility for election into the office of the President has been settled by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, which provides as follows;<\/p>\n

\u00a0137. (1) A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if –<\/p>\n

(b) he has been elected to such office at any two previous elections;<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cPresident Goodluck Jonathan has been elected into office on only ONE previous occasion and is therefore not statute-barred from running,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt is clear that the APC is seeking to bait the Presidency to respond to it to achieve two purposes. The first purpose is to get their name into the press and gain name recognition for their party. How pathetic. The second and more important reason is to divert the attention of the public from the festering feud between Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu over the overriding ambition of the two men, which is threatening to tear the new contraption which is mistakenly referred to by the gullible as a party.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the discerning, it is only a matter of time before ambition sinks the APC boat. It is only 2013 and already the big masquerades in the party are using undemocratic words like \u2018must\u2019, \u2018nobody can stop\u2019 and other military terms in discussing their presidential ticket.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cOur advice to the APC is this: treat your party like a democratic association and don\u2019t mistake it for the Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) that someone used to force his way to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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