Potiskum attack: Senator calls for Jonathan’s resignation

 The Senator representing Zone B  in Yobe State,Alhaji  Abdulkadir Alkali Jajere has said President Goodluck Jonathan is morally unfit to continue to rule the country  and should therefore resign.

The visibly angry senator who was at the Potiskum General Hospital yesterday  to sympathize with  victims of the Wednesday attack on the Potiskum Cattle Market  described the incident as unfortunate, sad, shocking and  an unexpected tragedy .

Sen. Jajere said former Defence Minister,General Yakubu Danjuma was quite right in his  recent assessment of the security  situation in the country when he said Nigeria is a failed state.

Jajere said: “The National Assembly is making good laws but the president is failing to implement such laws.

“It is unfortunate that government is not doing anything to safeguard life and property of the common  man on the street. Our president has failed and morally President Goodluck Jonathan has no business  to be in power now with what is happening in the country.

“He should resign his position as president on moral grounds before he is disgraced from  office. Enough is enough. People can’t just be dying as if we have no government in place.”

Asked why  the Senate has not deemed it right to commence  impeachment proceeding against the president the  Senator said Jonathan’s sins are so many and by the time “we start, nobody can stop it. No cabal or anybody will stand on the way of impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan because even the PDP is in disarray and tired of the whole thing.

“I believe with the growing failure of  security in the state, impeaching President Jonathan will not be a problem to the opposition in the National Assembly.

“The National Assembly is making good laws but the president keeps frustrating them. There is no implementation. Look at the BPE Committee and the present probe on the petroleum subsidy; they are all being frustrated by the executive. As far as I know, we are doing our best as law makers. Everyone should play his part justly”, Jajere said.

On the state of emergency imposed on some local government areas following incessant attacks by Boko Haram, said it was of no effect.

He wondered:“Has the state of  emergency been able to contain the situation? Does it have any impact on what is happening at the moment? Is it working in any form? But the Federal Government has decided to hold the subvention of these local councils unjustly. This is wrong and illegal and am taking up the matter.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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