A pro- Democracy and Non
Governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria HURIWA,
has warned President Muhammadu Buhari that unless he reins in his belicose and
careless talking ministers, the nation may be thrown into turmoils before,
during or after the forthcoming elections.
HURIWA listed the ruling party’s
top officials and some APC senators as agents of war who were pushing Nigeria
to the precipice of irreversible civil war.
HURIWA, in a statement, “specifically condemned the deployment of hate speeches by the ministers
of Transport and Information Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and Lai Mohammed, the
National Chairman of All Progressives Congress(APC) Mr Adams Oshiomhole;
Ex-governor of Akwa Ibom state and decampee Senator Godswill Akpabio and the
Media Assistants to the President, targeting prominent opposition politicians
such as the Presidential flagbearer of the main opposition political party,
Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and other members of the PDP such
as Senator Dino Melaye and Dr Doyin Okupe who are working for the election of
their candidate and former Vice President.”
HURIWA also condemned the arrests
and arbitrary detentions by EFCC and Police of those opposition politicians who
have been slammed with trumped up charges.
The association condemned
“Buhari’s administration for running illegal political prisons under some law
enforcement institutions such as DSS and Nigeria Police force.”
It further accused President Muhammadu
Buhari of keeping political prisoners such as erstwhile National Security
Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki; leader of Shiites Islamic Movement Sheikh
Ibraheem Elzaczacky and civil rights campaigner Mr Deji Adeyanju in clear
breach of bail orders granted by different competent courts of law.
HURIWA “therefore called on World
leaders to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediatelly free
all political prisiners languishing in defferent underground detention
centers.”
HURIWA lamented that “the ruling
APC has decided to abuse their privileged positions by using the law
enforcement agencies such as the Nigeria Police force; DSS and the EFCC as
attack dogs to frame up major political opponents belonging to the PDP including
Atiku Abubakar who has just been slammed with a phantom allegation of playing a
role in the collapse over a decade and half ago of the Bank PHB which was a
private business enterprise.”
It added, “HURIWA expressed
disapoointment that whereas indicted erstwhilst officials including former
governors produced by the Peoples Democratic party with serial graft
allegations hitherto hanging on their necks like the sword of Damocles have had
those damaging allegations of theft of billions of Dollars belonging to their
States pardoned since they hurriedly joined the APC, the EFCC and of late the
Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunals have become agencies for politically
motivated media trials and evil plots.”
HURIWA lamented that “Oshiomhole
had during the weekend in Edo State whilst welcoming some defectors from the
former ruling Peoples Democratic party to the current ruling All Progressives
Congress confirmed that APC is a refuge whereby any member of the opposition
PDP that cross carpets into their fold would have all their graft allegations
pardoned by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
HURIWA said “the fact that
President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained conspiratorial silence to the open
criminalisation of members of the PDP by the National Chairman of APC and his confirmation
that members of the PDP with cases of fraud who joined their fold would enjoy
Presidential pardon shows that the Federal government is simply playing to the
gallery by making bogus claims of waging war against corruption and Economic
Crimes whereas what is at play is simply choreographed attacks targeted
political opponents of APC.”
It “specifically averred that
Oshiomhole, urged members of the opposition party to join the APC so that their
sins could be forgiven.”
HURIWA quoted Oshiomhole as “making
the disclosure during the the APC rally in Benin, the Edo State capital, on
Thursday while receiving some members of the Peoples Democratic Party into the
APC during the rally just as he stated thus: ‘We have some PDP defectors. They
are, Henry Tenebe, Iluobe….Iluobe means I have done something wrong. Yes, once
you join the APC, your sins are forgiven.'”
It regretted “that the EFCC which
received from prominent Edo state citizens copious petitions with extensive
evidence allegedly linking Oshiomhole of heist of multiblion Dollars belonging
to Edo state people when he served for eight years as governor but instead the
EFCC failed to activate its investigative mechanisms and when the petitioners
headed to the Federal High Court to seek for mandamus to compel the EFCC to
arrest, investigate and prosecute Adams Oshiomhole over those explosive crimes
the same EFCC opposed the application of these petitioners for a Mandamus to
compel it to do her work.”
The group warned President Buhari
that these atrocious acts of double standards by the law enforcement agents
under his command and control is driving Nigeria to the precipice of anarchy
and doom just as the group accused the cabinet ministers aforementioned of
deliberately spreading hate filled accusations against President Muhammadu
Buhari’s political opposition members as a way of instigating civil turmoils
which may hamper and undermine the smooth conduct of the February and March
General elections.”
HURIWA has “therefore resolved to
petition World leaders on the activities of these federal government officials
and agencies which may precipitate civil war if not called to order to stop
their widespread deployment of hate speeches against political opposition.”
The Rights group said that
“indeed Nigeria is sitting precariously under the time bombs which may explode
any time soon except and unless sufficient pressures are brough to bear on
President Muhammadu Buhari to behave like a President and allow institutions of
government to work in accordance with their constitutional mandates and desist
from using these institutions as political attack dogs.”
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