The sheer irresponsibility of a tiny power cabal keeping the country headless for selfish desires has again come to the fore with the bloodletting going on in Jos, Plateau State, without a Commander-In-Chief to take charge and deal with the situation. Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) notes with sadness that a little over a year after the last Jos crisis, another one has taken place, costing destruction of lives and property. It is more worrisome that the government has yet to take any concrete step on the previous crises in the city before the latest one broke.
What is more disturbing is that there is no Commander-In-chief who can even handle the situation effectively as President Umar Yar’adua has been away for 57 days now without handing over the reins of authority to his deputy.
It was the same situation when Farouk Mutallab saga happened and there was no president in Nigeria to talk to the American president.
Whatever case we are making over the listing of Nigeria on Terror List has been shattered with the latest outbreak of terror in Jos and the tardiness of our “government” in dealing with it.
We are compelled to state again that the time has come for the cabal using the sick body of Yar’adua to hold the country to ransom to let go and allow the vice president to take effective charge of the country as Acting President.
It is in this vein that ARG declares total support for the mass rally called by Save Nigeria Group, SNG, for Lagos on Thursday to end this power vacuum in Nigeria.
‘Yinka Odumakin
National Publicity Secretary, ARG
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