Presidency denies Jonathan’s involvement in UPN’s resuscitation
APRIL 22, 2013
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The Presidency on Sunday said President Goodluck Jonathan was not involved in the move to resuscitate the Unity Party of Nigeria, as claimed by the Action Congress of Nigeria National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande.
A newspaper (not The PUNCH) on Sunday quoted Akande as describing the move by the founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, to resuscitate the party as a ploy by Jonathan to destabilise the country.
The ACN chief alleged that the planned resuscitation was to subsume thugs to fight the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress in the South-West.
However, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, in an interview with our correspondent, said the ACN chief should count the President out of his alleged destabilisation plot.
Gulak said the President remained committed to the country’s unity and therefore could not be spearheading a destabilisation plot.
On the resuscitation of the UPN, the presidential aide said there was no plan to stop anybody from exercising his or her constitutional rights.
He said Akande was “too naive and desperate” to know that Fasehun was only exercising his constitutional right just as the leaders of the opposition parties were exercising their rights by seeking to register APC.
He advised the opposition leaders to concentrate on getting their proposed new party registered rather than distracting themselves.
He said, “I do not know when it becomes fashionable to stop somebody from exercising his constitutional right.
“Leaders of the APC themselves are exercising their constitutional right by seeking to register their new party.
“Akande is just too naive and too desperate to understand this. He should count President Jonathan out of any destabilisation plot.
“The President is for the unity of this country. He is for the rule of law; he will not stop anybody for exercising his or her constitutional rights.
“My advice for the APC leaders is that they should form a national party and stop distracting themselves.”
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