Presidency To APC - Jonathan Will Not Resign

The Presidency stated that there is no part of the world where a president resigns during an ongoing war.

In response to calls by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan (pictured), the Presidency has said that no such thing would happen.
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In response to calls by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Presidency has said that no such thing would happen.

The Presidency stated further that there is no part of the world where a president resigns during an ongoing war.

This position was revealed by Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe via a statement released in Abuja on Thursday, November 6.

It reads:

 “The suggestion by one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, that President Goodluck Jonathan should 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 ‘civilised’ 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, the 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.”

“Telling the President to resign because of an ongoing insurgency is the height of insensitive, indecorous and bad politics which ought to be roundly condemned by every patriotic Nigerian,” he added.

Okupe also accused the APC of insulting the president at every opportunity and ridiculing the Nigerian troops who are fighting the battle against terror.

APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu and newly defected Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal made the call for Jonathan’s resignation during a recently held rally in Ilorin, Kwara State.