ACN Calls For Rejection of Emergency Rule

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has,however, described the declaration of a state of emergency in the three states as lacking in original thinking, and therefore asked the National Assembly toreject it. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if the use of force was capable of ending the Boko Haram crisis, it would have ended a long time ago. It said while the President was right in expressing outrage over the mindless killings and wanton destructionby the insurgents, he was wrong in proposing more of the same measures that have failed to yield results. “If the medicine given to a patient has not cured his or her illness,