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PAC laments state
of the nation
By Chuks Ehirim
Correspondent,Abuja
As the country marks her 44th year
of independence, Progressive Action Congress(PAC) has taken a retrospective
look at the nation in the last five years and come out with a verdict of
failure.
In a statement by Chief Charles
Agadeen, Nwodo, national chairman of the party, PAC insisted that the country is
on the drift.
�The Nigerian nation in the last
five years has continued to drift politically toward anarchy, chaos,
intolerance, bad governance and dictatorship in all the three tiers of
government,� said PAC.
It said there is executive
recklessness at the federal level, which has led to emasculation of the
legislative and judicial arms of government.
�At the federal level, the nation
had witnessed in all time record of executive high handedness, recklessness,
emasculation of the legislature and blatant disregard to court orders�, said
the party.
The party highlighted the instances,
such as the attempted kidnap July last year of the Governor of Anambra State,
Dr. Chris Ngige,, the withdrawing of local government allocations in some
states, the passage of the Labour Amendment Bill by the Senate among others, to
buttress its claims.
The party did not spare state
governors either. It said, that most of them have become demigods. �Most
governors in the states have transformed from dictators to demigods, drawing
inspiration from the conduct of affairs at the federal level�, the party added.
It lamented the tension in the
polity, saying it had potential for ruining the destiny of the nation. �Without
equivocation, the political landscape has been fraught with tensions and
anxieties,� it said, adding that by far the most profound political challenge
in the present dispensation is that of legitimacy.
�The2003 and 2004 elections could be
likened to playing a circus show with the destiny of the nation�, it said and
accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of deliberately working towards the
de-registration of political parties either through blackmail or by
administrative manipulation, such as denying the parties statutory subventions
in the 2004 budget.
On the economic front, PAC scored
the Obasanjo government low, saying that the several trillions of naira spent
by the government in the last five years had not impacted positively on the
lives of the people. �If anything, we are only left with dangerous, scandalous
and unacceptable levels of unemployment�, said the party.
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