By Jimitota Onoyume
PORT HARCOURT—THE  Nigerian Senate has been urged to reconsider its proposed plan to issue a seven day ultimatum to the United State government to remove the country from its terror watch list or it would sever all ties with the US.

Handing down this counsel in Port Harcourt, the Action Congress party said the Senate should rather consider diplomatic approach than being confrontational.

“We also would like to use this opportunity to dissuade the Nigerian Senate from its plan to sever all ties with the US at the end of a 7-day ultimatum given to that country to remove Nigeria from the terror watch list.

The implications and consequences for such an action if carried out may not be in the interest of the general citizenry.”

Continuing, the statement signed by the party’s publicity secretary in Rivers state, Chief Eze C. Eze, further blamed the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the country for the tension and problems being witnessed in the body polity.

“Today, we cannot claim we have a president as we are kept in the dark as to his welfare or whereabouts. Security of life and property in the country is no longer guaranteed. The wanton destruction of lives and property in the course of religious crisis in the North is reason enough for us to be disparaged by the world.

“The world will never take us serious until such a time we allow the people to determine who rules them and not according to the dictates of PDP and its leaders.

We will continue to fool ourselves as a nation when we cannot allow due process and the constitution hold sway in the case of an absentee president.

“As we pray the US to remove the name of our country from the terrorist watch list for the sake of many Nigerians of good stature and character who travel a lot, we pray Nigerians to unite to craft solutions to our common problem which is the mismanagement of the nation’s resources by the PDP Government at the centre.”

Until PDP and its agents of woe are tactically ushered out of power it is sad to portend the myriad of woes await the Nation and its citizenry come 2011.”