National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has rouse Nigerians into action, urging them not only to speak out, but act to defend the nation’s democracy, now in the intensive care unit of an ailing government.
The party boss, speaking against the backdrop of the siege by men of the police and the Department of State Security (DSS) at the residences of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, Tuesday morning.
Secondus, in a statement he personally signed, described Nigeria’s democracy as being under attack a heavy attack from Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC), using state security apparatus of the DSS, the army and the police to effect its agenda.
Lamenting what he saw as an attack on the National Assembly, he the President and the party, aimed to forcibly overthrow its leadership and in order to render the third arm of government comatose.
Hear him: “It is now a known fact that democracy has now collapsed in Nigeria and we are now under a totalitarian and fascist government with no appetite for the opposition.
“President Muhammadu Buhari is a beneficiary of democratic election into power and since he took over on May 29th 2015 he has done nothing but destroy every fabric of democracy and the rule of law.
“We hereby call on all Nigerians home and abroad to immediately speak up against this act of gross violation of the constitution of Nigerian and the attempt disruption of the Democratic process and institutions by President Muhammadu Buhari and privatized members of the Nigerian security agencies.
“We call on all traditional rulers in Nigeria, the international community and all well-meaning Nigerians to rise up against the antics of President Muhammadu Buhari to forestall a possible derailment of our democracy. The time to act is now.”
Source Whirlwindnews.com