APC wants Military to take over the nation’s democracy – Labour Party

The Labour Party, yesterday, flayed the All Progressives Congress for calling on its members in the National Assembly to block all executive bills, claiming that the action was meant to incite the military against civil authority.

It would be recalled that the APC had asked the lawmakers to block all legislative proposals, including the passage of the 2014 Appropriation bill and the confirmation of military service chiefs, until constitutionalism was restored in Rivers State.

Reacting to the statement, the National Chairman of LP, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, stated at a news briefing in Abuja that “to block military confirmation is an attempt to anger the military to think and reconsider their roles in the Nigerian nation and democracy.”

He added that APC was attempting to anger the military to push for a coup.

“We are talking about senior military officers who have over the years laid down their lives for the nation and Nigerian people who no doubt deserve appointments to the highest position in their career,” he said.

“We must not allow power mongers and desperate politicians, particularly those who were part and parcel of the story of the sorry state Nigeria found itself, to truncate our hard earned democracy.

“The President must not allow himself to be intimidated by the mischievous antics of the APC political leaders who are so desperate for power that they do not want to wait for 2015 when Nigerian electorates will exercise their inalienable rights to choose their leader.”

According to him, “We condemn very strongly the extremism and fundamentalism that the APC has come to be associated with. What APC has proposed to do is a recipe for the disintegration of the Nigerian state.

“It is therefore an ill wind that will blow no one any good. The desire and the quest of APC to win the 2015 presidential election will remain alpine dream if there is no Nigeria for them to govern.”

He said that with the action, the opposition party had declared war on Nigerians, adding that the party had taken their grievances too far.