Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
condemned the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly
displaying tendencies of a secret cult fraternity or a cartel.
HURIWA says it is shocked by the news that the party pegged
at N100 million the cost of its presidential nomination form for the 2023 poll.
The organisation said it is inconceivable that a citizen of
Nigeria who made his money through legitimate means can afford to fritter away
the princely sum of N100 million just because he or she wants to put himself
out to become the servant of the people of Nigeria.
It argued that “only political rogues, drug peddling
gangsters or persons involved in armed robbery or kidnappings for ransom can
afford to gamble away such a lifelong fortune.”
The rights group said anyone who buys the nomination form at
such a scandalous high amount of cash, should first be arrested by the citizens
if possible under the law permitting citizen’s arrest so such a person is
handed over to law enforcement agencies such as EFCC or ICPC or Police for
investigation on the source of the money.
HURIWA has also warned that the irrational and criminally
minded rationale for scaling up the cost of Presidential forms to such a
humongous amount as announced by the APC, will inevitably affect the value of
the Naira given that economic saboteurs who had siphoned public funds and
warehoused the stolen money in the dollar-denominated currency will now bring
them out to search for N100 million equivalence of the stolen dollars from
public coffers to buy presidential nomination from thereby limiting the Naira
in circulation for legitimate businesses.
The Rights group also expressed consternation that banks may
actually give out depositors’ money to “these power-hungry filthy politicians
to gamble away in buying the nomination form at the All Progressives Congress’s
Secretariat, since seeking to serve Nigerians in the thinking of these
misguided party leaders has become a MONEY GUZZLING VENTURE OR A PONZI SCHEME’.
“We were only just finished carpeting opposition Peoples
Democratic Party for bastardizing the process of nominating its presidential
candidate by inflating the cost of the nomination form to a princely sum of N40
million, little did we know that the politicians who run the Federal Government
and have ruined the national economy will peg theirs at the extravagant cost of
N100 million just to spite the opposition politicians and to make fun at
Nigerians as captives who as hostages of politicians can’t do nothing to
checkmate this rascality of the political forces”,
HURIWA’s statement signed by Emmanuel Onwubiko said.
“This same APC government is unable to meet the funding
obligations for federal universities and thereby left millions of students of
public schools to roam around in their homes due to industrial strike by
university teachers (ASUU) for over two months, yet the politicians have hidden
enough stolen cash to buy presidential forms at N100 million each.
“It is a shame that those who seek to govern Nigeria are
made to cough out so much money to purchase forms just to signpost their
original intention as persons whose only objective would be to first recoup
their huge investments and to further impoverish the citizenry.
“We urge Nigerians to initiate citizen’s arrest of anyone
who buys the APC Presidential form at the rate of N100 million so the relevant
law enforcement agencies are handed over these suspects to explain their source
of such huge funds.
APC announced on Wednesday that the party’s forms for a
Presidential ticket will be sold at N100 million, governorship aspirants cost
N50 million; Senate, N20 million; House of Representatives, N10 million and
State Houses of Assembly, N2 million.
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