• FG’s threat of emergency rule self-indictment, says Afenifere• You can’t stop ‘sit-at-home’ order, IPOB replies Southeast govsAt a time when campaign activities should be fast paced ahead of November 6 governorship election in Anambra State with candidates doing all to woo voters, there’s a lull pervading the length and breath of the state, as political gladiators recline to watch unfolding developments.
Aside from the ‘scarcity’ of bullion vans, some of the trappings expected of an election are currently missing. For instance, most governorship candidates who had been barely visible on the campaign train, have withdrawn totally. “They did not say people should not give their facility but they warned that should any campaign poster, party flag or political jingle be heard in the place, the person should be ready to face the consequence,” Onyia disclosed.
BUT the Peoples Democratic Party has cautioned the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government against imposing a state of emergency in Anambra. The PDP insisted that the Federal Government has the capacity to ensure peace in Anambra before, during and after the election, if it so desired. According the spokesman, it was in order for the government to warn that the incessant violence in the state was unacceptable and may lead to undesirable consequence, but it is a height of blame game and hypocrisy to put all the blame on the state government when it is clear that the main security apparatuses in the country are controlled exclusively by the Federal Government.
“No where in the Constitution has the President been vested with the power to remove the elected governor of a state and suspend democratic structures. The governor of a state can only be removed by impeachment or resignation and not by imposition of emergency rule. Even though former President Olusegun Obasanjo removed two governors via the imposition of emergency rule, the PDP-led Federal Government later jettisoned the illegal practice.
But reacting on Wednesday, Umahi said the two separatist groups he knows of are IPOB and MASSOB, adding that Abaribe spoke “from the point of his information.”
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