Nigeria: Tolulope - Why Must We Involve the President?

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THE Tribune last Sunday quoted an unidentified APC official as saying in respect of the political fate of Admiral Nyako (rtd) and Alhaji Al-Makura in Adamawa and Nasarawa states respectively, "we cannot afford to lie low with the PDP. The plot is to paint the impeachment moves as coming from Jonathan and that way secure public sympathy in favour of our party". That seems to be an "A" plan, which was to be executed simultaneously with "B" plan in which, according to the same source, "the party's strategic leaders" were being asked to reach out to PDP leaders and plead with them not to heat up the polity and allow the governors stay".

What kind of country is Nigeria? It would appear that we are subjecting events in Adamawa and Nasarawa unnecessarily to emotions. If plan "B" as stated above makes sense, not so plan "A" involving threats and serious blackmail against President Goodluck Jonathan who in his characteristic aloofness certainly has no hand in the impeachment scenarios playing out in the two states.

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