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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday disagreed over the directive by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to its members in the National Assembly to block all Executive Bills, including the 2014 Budget.
According to Sunday Trust, APGA National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, in a statement described the directive as callous and unpatriotic, saying APC’s action was insensitive at it would cripple economic activities in Nigeria, thereby dehumanizing Nigerian citizens.
“We had in the past alerted Nigerians about the undemocratic credentials of APC, as the party is a conglomerate of odd characters and undemocratic elements, as well as former coup plotters who over-threw democratically elected governments in Nigeria,” Umeh asserted; adding that APC therefore cannot be expected to have respect for democracy.
“The present annexure of Rivers State by the APC is a usurpation of the mandate of the people of Rivers State to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last General Election. The crisis in the State can also be traced to the resistance of the people of the state to the strange direction of their affairs by a political party that they did not give their mandate to”, Thisday Live quoted him as saying.
He added that the APC has used a tactic of brainwashing and inciting people who were never elected through their platform, to defect to their fold.
The Punch also reports that he directed all the party’s members in the National Assembly “never to align themselves with evil forces in the National Assembly.”
According to Sunday Trust, APGA National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, in a statement described the directive as callous and unpatriotic, saying APC’s action was insensitive at it would cripple economic activities in Nigeria, thereby dehumanizing Nigerian citizens.
“We had in the past alerted Nigerians about the undemocratic credentials of APC, as the party is a conglomerate of odd characters and undemocratic elements, as well as former coup plotters who over-threw democratically elected governments in Nigeria,” Umeh asserted; adding that APC therefore cannot be expected to have respect for democracy.
“The present annexure of Rivers State by the APC is a usurpation of the mandate of the people of Rivers State to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last General Election. The crisis in the State can also be traced to the resistance of the people of the state to the strange direction of their affairs by a political party that they did not give their mandate to”, Thisday Live quoted him as saying.
He added that the APC has used a tactic of brainwashing and inciting people who were never elected through their platform, to defect to their fold.
The Punch also reports that he directed all the party’s members in the National Assembly “never to align themselves with evil forces in the National Assembly.”
