The
All Nigeria Save Democracy Movement, ANSADEM, has issued a strong
statement to the Nigerian Senate that if it confirms Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro to a ministerial post, it will face mass action.
The warning was conveyed by the group at a press conference held Tuesday
at the Centre for Constitutional Governance in Ilupeju, Lagos State.
Comrade Adebayo, the convener of the group, read the press statement
saying “confirming Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as minister would be
tantamount to a big disservice to the fatherland and a direct attack on
Nigeria’s democracy”.
“We call on the Senate to exercise a great sense of responsibility and
leadership by first probing the involvement of Senator Obanikoro in that
shameful saga before screening him for a ministerial post”.
The group has also mass-produced the Ekiti rigging audio tape detailing
Obanikoro’s shameful acts, which is to be “distributed free to Nigerians
across the country, the diplomatic community, and international
institutions including the United Nations, the International Criminal
Court, and the African Union”.
Adebayo said that the “removal of Professor Jega at this time is sure to
rob the 2015 general elections of all credibility credentials” and
therefore “we condemn and call on Nigerians to resist any attempt to
postpone the elections again or illegally remove Professor Attahiru Jega
as INEC chairman before his terms runs its course”.
The group described “the electioneering campaigns of the major political
parties PDP and APC, which have been characterized more by mutual
character assassinations and infantile exhibition of political
immaturity, rather than basing their campaigns on critical and
beneficial national issues strewn with elements of superior arguments
and sophisticated intellects”.
The group denounced and condemned “the nefarious activities of
spokespersons of politicians who attack our sensibilities in a daily
display of ‘toutish’ outbursts”, just as it also frowned at “the sudden
intrusion by the military into the electoral process”.
The group said it viewed the military’s incursion into the electoral
process as a major threat to democratic institutions, adding that the
current core of service chiefs, the National security Adviser, and the
IGP must be prosecuted for treason, for holding Nigerians and Nigeria to
ransom at their selfish whims.

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