A socio-political group, Youth Movement for the Defence of Democracy (YMDD) has condemned what it called “the ongoing orchestrated political crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”
It said the crisis was a deliberate ploy to distract and derail the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and polarise the National Assembly.
The group (YMDD) said the demands by Governor Amaechi-led faction of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) for the resignation of the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as undemocratic and undermining of the constitutional powers of the President.
It said, “We recall that the reported demand for the resignation of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala came at the heels of widely speculated (and yet to be refuted) demand by these same governors for presidential protection against investigation and prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). It is indeed ridiculous that elected representatives of the people in the stature of state governors could be making such demands; without remorse or refrain as condition for truce with the President.”
The group in a statement by Mr. Omotayo Olanrewaju, Public Affairs Officer call “for immediate and unconditional cessation to the deliberate and orchestrated distractions of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan by forces angling for power in 2015. ”
