Apparently drawing from the benefits of hindsight, a frontline Human Rights Activist Chief Gabriel Giwa – Amu has advised the Vice –President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of urgency shift his office outside Abuja in the event that the ailing President Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua is unable to carry on the governance of the country and he (Jonathan) is eventually sworn in as the country’s President.

 

The fiery Legal luminary bared his mind on the purported pressure said to be mounted on the Vice-President by some face-less power brokers in the ruling party the PDP who are alleged to have suggested that the constitution be set aside as they insist on implementing the party’s constitution which had already zoned the President slot to the North.

 

They had to the report urged the Vice-President to resign his appointment to pave way for the Senate President Mr. David Mark who as it were will then be sworn in as the acting President of the country. However in a swift reaction the man at the centre of the whole brouhaha has told Nigerians that he was at no time under pressure to resign his exalted position.

 

A surprised Giwa-Amu at the pettiness of some of the country’s leaders describes the unfolding events as bunkum and mockery of due process that is much touted by this administration. ‘How do some few privileged cabal think they can always insult the sensibilities of Nigerians in the pursuit of their selfish interest, the constitution in spite of the glaring lapses is quite clear in this matter and it will be sheer malady for anyone to shove it aside for party’s interest’ he said.

 

Continuing, he said the law of the land is explicit when it averred that all by-laws are they statutory or decrees are inferior to the constitution and so those who are fronting for their party’s constitution to take pre-eminence in this matter should look up section 144 sub section a, b, c for clarifications.

 

On why he opined that the Vice-President should relocate if eventually sworn in, Giwa-Amu said though he is not envisaging any harm befalling the man who fate has always paved way for in his meteoric rise to power, he is nevertheless not too comfortable with those who are alleged to have pressurised him to resign although he is aware that he had already told Nigerians that he was never pressurized.

 

“I am sure not many Nigerians are in a hurry to forget Abiola and the tea saga and the political calculations of those who will want to have everything their way, who says a similar objective will not be on the minds of these political jobbers? In the interest of peace and the sustainability of our democratic experiment, let’s put aside our selfish interest and get it right for once” he concludes..

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