Sack all service Chiefs, restructure Nigeria -YPP Chair tells Buhari

Sack all service Chiefs, restructure Nigeria -YPP Chair tells Buhari

By Eriacy Confidence

The New chairman of the Young Democratic Party, YPP Cross River chapter,  Comrade Anthony Bissong Attah has called on the President, Muhammad Buhari to fire all the service chiefs as a result of their incapacity and incompetence in the  prosecution of the war against insurgency in the country. He also called on the president to immediately initiate a template for the restructuring of Nigeria as well as sign the Electoral Amendment Bill forthwith.

Comrade Attah who addressed gentlemen of the press today in Calabar, Cross River State, also urged the people of South South geopolitical zone to immediately establish a formidable regional security outfit to combat the raging menace of insecurity in the country.

" I welcome you all to this historic moment in the political history of Cross River State. We are gathered here today to formally intimate the general public that our former state party Chairman, Castro Ezama has resigned from his position as Chairman and member of the party. We thank him for his stewardship and wish him well in his future political endeavours.

It could be recalled that four years ago when Young Democratic Party was formally recognized by the INEC as a political party, I had the singular privilege of midwifing the birth of the first ever youth affiliated political party to CRS. I rallied a great company of young men and women to kickstart a new political orientation in the state. When the party got enmeshed in crisis, I joined the progressive wing of the party under our great leader and National Chairman, Bishop Amakiri to register the YPP. To God’s glory, on the 7th of June, 2017, YPP was formally registered by INEC and again, I led the launch of the party in the state.

YPP remains the assemblage of Progressive with an altruistic mission to salvage Nigeria by offering genuine and transparent accountability in governance with tangible, concrete, cogent and compelling dividends of democracy to the people of Nigeria. In saner clime by now our two big brothers from the two big parties but same parents should have apologized to Nigerians for destroying our great country for over 20 years now. Going forward, I urge them to take a bow and leave the political landscape in 2023 as a way of atoning for their sins to enable the younger generation salvage the nation.

I also like to use this platform to ask President MBuhari to fire all Service Chiefs with unaccustomed alacrity as they have demonstrated incapacity and incompetence in their prosecution of the war against insurgency in Nigeria. I also urge the people of South South geopolitical zone to immediately establish a formidable regional security outfit to combat the raging menace of insecurity in the country. Lastly, I implore the President to immediately initiate a template for the restructuring of Nigeria as well as sign the Electoral Amendment Bill forthwith"

Comrade Anthony Bissong Attah who took over as Chairman of the party in the state following the resignation of Castro Ezama from his position as Chairman and member of the party, lamented the near absence of a productive opposition, CSOs and media in the state, pledged to build YPP into a formidable party that will fill this lacuna thereby rescuing democracy and good governance.

" Today, I embrace wholeheartedly another challenging opportunity to serve my state and nation as the state Chairman of YPP. This assignment is peculiar to me in many ways. There has been a yawning Gap in the provision of political opposition in CRS. With political parties either wining and dining with the ruling party or engaging in internal wrangling, the ruling PDP has had a field day in our dear State with the Governor as an Emperor without anyone to offer a variant political position in the state. It is even more alarming to note that there is near absence of CSOs in the state and worse still the media in CRS is in coma. This simply means a total ‘carry go’ or smooth ride for the government which is a fodder for dictatorship and totalitarianism. This lacuna portends a terrible danger to democracy and a cog in the wheels of good governance in CRS."

He therefore  gave a 24 hours ultimatum to CROSIEC to reverse decision to defranchise opposition parties from participating in the forth coming Local Government elections in the state.

"Finally, ladies and gentlemen, let me use this opportunity to announce that the 48 hours given to the Chairman of CROSIEC to reverse his decision to disenfranchise opposition parties in the forthcoming Local Government election by demanding humongous pay from candidates has elapsed today and the party will approach the courts on Monday to demand that our candidates, having met all the requirements for elections are allowed to participate in the election"