Former Aviation Minister, Femi
Fani-Kayode has raised an alarm over alleged plan by the Buhari government to
arrest and detain former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
He also said the government has
marked vocal critics as well as opposition leaders for similar treatment.
This was contained in a statement
he personally signed on Sunday.
It reads: “I have read the
disturbing reports about the Buhari administration’s plan to frame up, arrest
and detain President Olusegun Obasanjo on trumped up and politically-motivated
charges.
It has also been brought to my
attention that they have threatened his life.
Though I am not surprised because
this is nothing new for this government. That is their stock in trade and they
have been doing it for the last three years to anyone and everyone that opposes
or criticises them.
What bothers me now is that
President Buhari has become so jittery that he is prepared to do anything to
stay in power. I have done my research and I have discovered that the plan is
real.
The government are also planning
to target other key opposition figures and elder statesmem as we get closer to
2019 such as General T.Y. Danjuma, General Ibrahim Babangida, President
Goodluck Jonathan and a handful of others.
It appears that Buhari will stop
at nothing in order to ensure that all his critics are silenced.
The plan to implicate and silence
all these leaders together with key figures in the PDP like Ayo Fayose,
Emmanuel Udom, Ibrahim Dankwabo, Nyesome Wike, Darius Ishaku, Godswill Akpabio,
David Mark, Ike Ekweremadu, Lyle Imoke, Uche Secondus, Sule Lamido, Ibrahim
Shekarau, Abubakar Suleiman, Kabiru Turaki, David Jang, Atiku Abubakar, Dele
Belgore, Jumoke Akinjide, Nenadi Usman and others is condemnable.
They also plan to give some of us
the Nnamdi Kanu treatment and make us dissapear or give us the Sambo Dasuki and
El Zak Zaky treatment and lock us up indefinately but they will fail.
Such is Buhari’s desperation that
he is even attempting to discredit and destroy key members of his own party
like Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara, Dino Melaye, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Abubakar
Baraje, Aminu Tambuwal, Abdul Fatah Ahmed, Timi Frank and others.
Nobody is safe anymore, not even
legislators, media houses, journalists, bloggers, religious organisations or
NGO’s that oppose or criticise the Federal Government.
Nigeria is fast becoming a
fascist police state where dissent is seen as a crime and where those that
oppose the President are perceived as enemies of the state and prisoners of
war.
They forget that we have a divine
obligation and patriotic duty to oppose evil and tyranny in the land and
nothing will make us shirk that responsibility.
Let it be clearly understood that
we will not sit by idly and allow Buhari to continue to threaten, harrass and
intimdate all those who oppose him. We are not intimidated and we have no fear.
Governments come and go and no matter what he does Buhari will not be there
forever.
Taking this matter to a level of
threatening the lives and liberty of people like Obasanjo, Danjuma, Babangida,
Jonathan and other elder statemen and seeking to destroy key opposition figures
for no just cause is dangerous and unacceptable and it will have consequences.
We do not want war in Nigeria: we
want peace and the Buhari government should desist from provoking a situation
and a series of events that may end up spiralling out of control.
It is almost as if they are
begging for war and that is tragic. They may have the full machinery and power
of the Federal Government but we have the Living God. Nothing can stop us in
our divine mission to stop him and rescue Nigeria.
The truth is that any untoward or
irrational course of action will be met with a corresponding and appropiate
reaction which may have dire implications for the peace and unity of our
nation.
This game must be played within
the rules of engagement or else all hell will eventually break lose. Buhari
must be warned.
Peace, fair play and justice must
be allowed to reign in our nation and those that oppose the President must be
treated with the respect, decency and decorum that they deserve.
They are not enemies of the state
and prisoners of war but law-abiding and patriotic Nigerians that have no faith
in him and that wish to rescue Nigeria from his tyranny. There is no crime in
that and they do not deserve to be killed or to be locked up for it.”
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