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CNPP accuses Obasanjo of conspiracy with Ngige, Uba
From Mohammed Abubakar,
Abuja
THE Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has given a damning verdict on the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, concluding that it had failed to live up to the expectation of Nigerians.
It has, therefore, asked President Obasanjo to resign.
In an open letter to the President, Chairman of the CNPP, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, on behalf of the coalition of political parties, faulted the President's reaction to the letter written to him by the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh, on the state of the nation, particularly the President's account of an encounter between Governor Chris Ngige and his estranged political godfather, Chris Uba, on the last governorship election in Anambra State.
The CNPP's letter titled: "No, Mr. President, three armed robbers met in your residence", noted that the meeting at the Presidency where Ngige and Uba met during which the confession that Ngige did not win the governorship election was allegedly made was akin to a meeting of robbers.
In the CNPP's view, the role played by the President's own admission was not presidential because "only an armed robber will attempt to reconcile armed robbers."
The CNPP said: "Considering the fact that the 2003 Presidential election in which you contested and the gubernatorial election by which Ngige was elected were held on the same day and the same time and the same polling stations in Anambra State, Chris Uba was talking to you and Ngige when he spoke the words you quoted in the letter.
"Considering the direct role you played in Anambra State during the 2003 Presidential and gubernatorial elections, you are today an accessory before and after the fact of robbery which loot you continue to enjoy."
The CNPP argued that from whatever perspective it was viewed, the President's letter to Ogbeh amounted to "a confessional statement by an accessory before and after the fact of robbery in Anambra State which loot you helped to share in your residence."
The CNPP added: "The meeting in your residence was a meeting between three robbers who failed in their attempts to mend fences for the purpose of quietly sharing the loot. The evil effects of this robbery could not be restricted to the borders of Anambra State alone.
"The 2003 robbery reached every state of Nigeria and it is the debilitating effects of the robbery that the national chairman of your party partly addressed in his letter to you.
"In the light of the foregoing, the CNPP is of the firm view that having confessed your role in a robbery and the part you played in sharing the loot in your residence, at least in Anambra State and your failure in many respects to meet the standards for a President of Nigeria and the threat to peace and the continued existence of Nigeria, you have wholly and totally lost claim to the right to occupy the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and you should resign with immediate effect," the CNPP added.
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