Here is an official letter received from the Presidency
in Abuja this afternoon over an impeachment move
against Jonathan from the leaders of All
Progressives Congress, APC party.
We have noted with utter disdain, the reckless and
irresponsible call by the APC on Sunday for the
National Assembly to commence impeachment
proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ordinarily, we would not have dignified Alhaji Lai
Mohammed's latest vituperations in the service of his
paymasters with a response, but we thought it
necessary to warn that the Federal Government will
not standby idly and let the nation be plunged into
unnecessary crises and political instability because of
the desperation and apparent readiness of the APC
spokesman and his gang of power-seeking
desperadoes to sacrifice the well-being of the country
on the altar of their selfish personal ambitions.
The Presidency totally condemns the decision by
Alhaji Mohammed and his party to move further
beyond the bounds of honourable and acceptable
political conduct with the senseless call for the
impeachment of a President who continues to
sincerely devote himself to the discharge of the
sacred mandate freely given to him by Nigerians.
The APC, which remains a minority party with
doubtful credentials in the National Assembly, knows
fully well that its attempt to hector and blackmail a
Parliament dominated by loyal members of the
President's party, the PDP, into an impeachment
process, will come to nothing.
But it has cavalierly embarked on this outrageous
gambit, with scant regard for peace, order, security
and political stability in the country, in furtherance of
its dastardly and heinous strategy of over-heating
the polity and working to cause public disaffection
against the Jonathan Presidency with lies, false
accusations and unjustifiable indictments ahead of
the 2015 general elections.
The emptiness and hollowness of the APC's call for
President Jonathan's impeachment will be obvious to
all objective and discerning Nigerians who read
through the statement issued by Alhaji Mohammed
today. It was long on self-serving rhetoric and
falsehoods, but lacked a single clearly defined charge
on the basis of which any plausible impeachment
proceedings against the President can be initiated.
All that the APC could offer in justification of its
absurd and hare-brained impeachment call was a
rehash of its well-worn litany of baseless accusations
against the President, including some for which
culpability should be laid squarely at the doorsteps of
its own leaders and some of their new friends.
The Presidency also considers it utterly deplorable
that the APC has, in its Machiavellian desperation to
seize control of the Federal Government, recklessly
assailed the integrity and honour of the Nigerian
Judiciary in a callous attempt to pre-empt the
outcome of the case legitimately brought against it
by some of its new friends by the PDP.
Alhaji Mohammed's unscrupulous effort to drag the
nation's judiciary into its murky political warfare and
his readiness to intimidate and blackmail members
of the bench so as to secure a favourable outcome for
his party in the pending case clearly shows that
nothing is beyond the pale for him and the APC in
pursuit of their quest for power.
The Jonathan Administration does not need Lai
Mohammed or the APC to remind it of its
constitutional responsibility for the security and well-
being of Nigerians. The President will continue to do
his utmost best to achieve positive national
transformation in all areas in spite of efforts by the
opposition to thwart or disparage the work of his
administration.
In this regard, we have noted the undisguised threat
by the APC to foster public insurrection against the
Federal Government if pending legal cases go
against it. We urge Nigerians to take special note of
this boastful indication of an intention to resort to
lawlessness.
The Presidency warns that the APC and any persons
who make themselves its willing tools for the breach
of public order and safety will be made to face the
full sanctions of the law. Those who are threatening
fire and brimstone should be ready for consequences
of treasonable action.
The APC's false copy-cat allegation that 1, 000
snipers are being trained by the Jonathan
Administration clearly shows that they are now in
cahoots with some other elements who are bent on
discrediting this administration and inciting the
public against it.
President Jonathan is running a people's
government. He does not need any snipers. His
legitimacy comes from the people. Those who are
alleging the existence of snipers should step forward
and provide the evidence or shut up forever and go
down in history as spineless cowards, driven by sheer
greed and indecency.
We dismiss the APC's call for the President's
impeachment as opportunistic, partisan and ill-
motivated.
We call on patriots to make the necessary distinction
between such reckless violations of civic duty and
the urgent need to protect the integrity of the
Nigerian nation against those who for selfish reasons
have declared their readiness to stop at nothing.

Sent From David Aniemeka