No president resigns during war – Presidency asks Nigerians to ignore APC calls

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The Presidency has replied the All Progressives Congres, APC, over its call for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan.
It says no president of a nation resigns during war.
The National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had demanded for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan over his inability to tackle the Boko Haram menace.
Reacting to the call on behalf of the President, Special Assistant on Public Affairs to Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, in a statement yesterday, urged Nigerians to ignore Tinubu.
He said, “The suggestion by one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, that President Goodluck Jonathan should resign from office as a result of the activities of insurgents in the north-eastern part of the country, has once again shown beyond doubt that the former Lagos State governor and his colleagues in the opposition are a bunch of political anarchists and charlatans blinded by an unbridled appetite for power.
“The assertion by Tinubu at a political rally in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday that in ‘civilised’ societies, the President should have resigned is unfounded and lacking in historical precedence.
“We challenge him to tell Nigerians which part of his ‘civilised’ world has there been a call on a President to resign during an on-going war.
“When terrorists attacked the United States of America in September 2001, the leaders of the Democratic Party did not demand a resignation of President George Bush but rather they rose in defence of the American nation to support the various measures taken by the President to defeat the al Qaeda terrorists.”
The presidential aide said that it was unfortunate that the APC, in its hunger for power and quest to make selfish political gains from insecurity, had shown a total lack of the spirit of nationalism and statesmanship in its public comments on the challenges of insurgency in the North-East.

“Telling the President to resign because of an ongoing insurgency is the height of insensitive, indecorous and bad politics which ought to be roundly condemned by every patriotic Nigerian”, he added.