APC blames Jonathan, PDP for attack on lawmakers' quarters

APC blames Jonathan, PDP for attack on lawmakers' quarters

Monday, October 13, 2014 1:55 pm


A Toyota Corolla damaged

A Toyota Corolla damaged

The window of a Toyota  damaged

The window of a Toyota damaged

Windows broken in a house

Windows broken in a house

Another face of the damage

Another face of the damage

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the apparently-orchestrated attack on Edo legislative quarters on Saturday, saying the attack raised the level of impunity under the
Jonathan Administration to a level not even contemplated in the days of military rule.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said based on the ease with which the thugs invaded a facility that should be well secured and the ample time they had to damage over 30 cars and inflict injuries on legislators and their families, there is no question that the attack was carried out with the collusion of the lawless PDP and the increasingly-partisan police.

”Gov. Adams Oshiomhole said the government got intelligence report on the attack and informed the State Police Commissioner. Instead of sending in reinforcement to prevent the attack, the few policemen attached to the quarters were withdrawn before the attack. This is another indication of a police force that is being bankrolled by all taxpayers becoming shamelessly partisan and engaging in selective implementation of its constitutional role of protecting the lives and property of the citizenry,” it said.

APC said, however, that the atmosphere for the attack was created by a President whose body language encourages impunity, a President who has converted the police and the army to his party’s militia, a President who presides over a government that is incapable of maintaining law and order, not to talk of protecting the citizens.

The party said whether in Rivers State, where the police was used to harass the opposition, including the Governor; Ekiti, where the police stood by while thugs led by a Governor-elect Ayodele Fayose were beating Judges and sacking courts, the same Ekiti, where the PDP-led Federal Government has used the police and other security agents to prevent courts from re-opening as ordered by the National Judicial Council, or Edo, where the police have offered protection to renegade lawmakers at the expense of the majority, the Jonathan Administration has given a free rein to impunity like never before in the history of Nigeria.

”The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) takes orders only from the President. Therefore, where the President decides to turn the police to his personal militia for use in vindictive and vendetta attacks, the IGP is not only required to comply, he is also expected to pass the same orders down the hierarchy. This is what is happening across the country.


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