CFTU urges Obasanjo, Atiku to resign
FOLLOWING the festering face-off between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abukabar in the last few weeks, the Congress of Free Trade Union of Nigerian (CFTU) has called for the resignation of the duo.
The organisation noted that the feud between the duo had caused the nation a national embarrassment in the last few weeks even as the masses continued to suffer in silence.
Although the National Assembly has continued to probe the contentious reports by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Administrative Panel of Inquiry that indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar for abuse of office, CFTU, has however called on the Senate to impeach the duo so that proper investigation could be conducted on their counter-accusations.
It could be recalled that the on-going counter accusations between the president and his vice began after the president accused the vice president of diverting some of the petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) funds for personal use.
However, the Federal Government, has resolved to release the gazette of the indictment of the vice-president by the EFCC and Administrative Panel of Inquiry as soon as possible.
According to CFTU, "what Nigerians should know is that the president and his vice are out to outwit each other in the struggle to clinch-power. Why is that? They are fighting only now when they have lived peacefully in corrupt collusion for more than seven years. They have their greed and personal ego to satisfy and we should not be rigged into their fight."
In the press release signed by the General Secretary of the organisation, Mr. Didi Adodo, the union urges Nigerians not to heed the diversionary attempt to sway them from important matters while they plan to supplant their stooge or take the lead in 2007.
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