Tinubu, Colleagues Bunch of Political Anarchists and Charlatans – Okupe, Says Presidents Don’t Resign in War Time
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Posted On Nov 6, 2014
The Presidency responded to the call by dome leaders of the All Progressives Congress on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office.
According to the presidency, there is no part of the world where the President resigns during an ongoing war.
It will be recalled that the leadership of the APC, including its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal demnaded that President Goodluck Jonathan should resign because of the ongoing war against the country by the members of the Boko Haram sect.
But reacting on behalf of the President, his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to tell Nigerians where such presidents had resigned during war time.
Okupe asked Nigerians to ignore such calls from the APC.
He said, “The suggestion by one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, that President Goodluck Jonathan resign from office as a result of the activities of insurgents in the north eastern part of the country has once again shown beyond doubt that the former Lagos State Governor and his colleagues in the opposition are a bunch of political anarchists and charlatans blinded by an unbridled appetite for power.
“The assertion by Tinubu at a political rally in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday that in ‘civilised’ societies, the President should have resigned is unfounded and lacking in historical precedence.
“We challenge him to tell Nigerians which part of his ‘civilized’ world has there been a call on a President to resign during an on-going war.
“When terrorists attacked the United States of America in September, 2001, leaders of the Democratic Party did not demand a resignation of President George Bush but rather they rose in defence of the American Nation to support the various measures taken by the President to defeat the Al Qaeda terrorists.”
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