The Reformed-All Progressives Congress (R-APC) says it is shocking that
President Muhammadu Buhari has not deemed it fit to condemn the
“illegal” attempt to impeach Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state.
Eight
lawmakers of the state house of assembly commenced impeachment
proceeding against the governor on Monday, while some 22 others were
reportedly blocked from attending plenary by the police.
Reacting
to this Kazeem Afegbua, spokesman of the R-APC, said Buhari’s silence
suggests he is the “chief promoter of undemocratic illegalities that
have consistently undermined our democratic engagements in the last
three years”.
He alleged that there is an attempt to force down
the “bitter pills” of Buhari’s second term agenda down the throat of
Nigerians.
“On the one hand, the APC party leadership declared
that they aren’t losing sleep over our members activities ostensibly to
present a fake personae but it has consistently mounted pressure on our
members to capitulate under the influence of mouth-watering promises,”
he said.
“Now that our member Governor Ortom has given the APC
red card, and deservedly so, heaven has been let loose and President
Buhari has maintained a conspiratorial silence and deliberately feigning
ignorance over the democratic gangsterism that has dominated Benue
assembly at present.”
The group said the Monday incident and
similar ones in Benue show Nigeria’s democracy is “seriously under
threat” by those trying to “armtwist the Benue people against their
will.”
According to the statement, “this desperation is getting
too much and it must be arrested forthwith without equivocation before
this democracy is reduced to a mindless rubble.”
“We cannot
afford to feign ignorance over this heinous crime against humanity under
an atmosphere of threat, tension and harassment that has assumed the
second nature of this government,” the group added.
“It is
becoming petty that this government has descended to a level of
irredeemable dictatorship and outright desperation in the name of
forcing the bitter pills of second term down the throat of Nigerians.
“We
cannot continue to pretend that all is well when our country is
gradually descending to the abyss of maximum rulership orchestrated by
the president’s foot soldiers.
“We are therefore raising alarm
that this democracy must be saved from the indecent grip of APC agents
of suppression and oppression under the clear supervision of the
president.”
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