Resign Now! Ribadu Tells Jonathan.

Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign.
The call for his resignation came following findings of the Presidential Advisory Committee headed by retired General Theophilus Danjuma that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is engrossed in massive corruption and high level debt profile.
Ribadu made the call today (Thursday) through a statement signed by the Director Media and Communication of his campaign team, Ibrahim Modibbo.
The presidential hopeful suggested that since Jonathan was asking the Minister of state for Health to resign on corruption charges, “the President, who seems to be helpless in the face of this national problem, should also resign on the grounds of the findings of the PAC.”
It would be recalled that the PAC, which was set up by President Jonathan on the 20th of January 2011 presented a report to the President which raised alarm over widespread and substantial increase in the level of corruption in all sectors of government.

The report claimed that as a result of the high level of corruption, Nigeria had remained internationally uncompetitive and that it had hampered the implementation of several policies like the vision 20-2020.The committee also raised concerns over the depletion of the Excess Crude Account at a time of rising oil production and prices and the excessive expenditure on the legislature.
Ribadu decried the level of corruption in the country and the president’s inaction towards the menace.
 “We are baffled that despite the common knowledge that corruption is the bane of the country’s growth and development, President Jonathan has allowed this menace to thrive during his administration.
“It is even more compelling that it is the President’s own advisers who are not only admitting this, but apparently chastising the government for its inactions by calling for the President and his administration to be more proactive in the fight against corruption.” , he said.