2019: Buhari becoming ‘dangerously desperate’, threat to democracy – Group
Harmony in Africa Initiative (ADAPHAI) has cautioned President
Muhammadu Buhari over the recent turn of political events in Nigeria,
saying that the President's action and inaction were becoming threat
to democracy.
The group, while speaking with journalists on Tuesday through his
National Coordinator, Comrade Sulaimon Suberu, on the reported siege
by security operatives at the residences of two principal officers of
the National Assembly, namely: Senate President Bukola Saraki and
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, said the President was
becoming "dangerously desperate".
Suberu asserted that the outright clampdown on seeming political
enemies by the presidency is totally inimical to democratic principles
and against ideal democratic norm, calling for caution.
He opined that the rate at which "President Buhari and his foot
soldiers were going about the 2019 ambition of the President was
heating up the polity unnecessarily".
ADAPHAI said, "The present political intricacies playing out in
Nigeria is a bad omen to say the least, it poses a serious threat to
survival of Nigeria as a corporate entity and the indivisibility of
our sovereignty.
"As peace advocacy group, the trend of killings by Fulani Marauders,
coupled with alleged complicity by security agents remain a profound
concern to us.
"The humanitarian crisis presently engulfed the North East and Middle
belt has made our country more vulnerable than ever in history.
"Despite this huge security challenges, we were taken aback by the
pattern of security deployment during Ekiti election, where over
hundred of thousands security agents were on ground to monitor an
election in a state with just 16 local governments, while such
security arrangement could not be deployed to those volatile areas.
"It became more worrisome when the presidency reacted to the All
Progressives Congress' victory at the poll as if a war had been won.
"The latest, which is the power struggle between the Senate and the
Presidency, apparently because of the 2019 general election is indeed
unimaginable."
Suberu went on to call on international community to intervene and
save Nigeria from impending danger.
He explained that the status of Nigeria in Africa makes every issue in
the country a source of concern for every conscious individual in the
continent and beyond.
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