Worried by the adverse effects that the recent gale of impeachments and attempted impeachments of state governors have generated across the country with the concomitant overheating of the polity, a democracy friendly Non-Governmental Organization, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has called on the Nigerian political class to declare a general period of national truce and quiet.
HURIWA called on national party leaders and strategic national political stakeholders to convoke a self funded national political peace conference to sign a memorandum of understanding on the enforcement of the national period of peace, quiet and tranquility to be moderated by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
In the thinking of the pro-democracy rights body, at this period of general state of panic, uncertainty and apprehension created by the activities of terrorists and a range of armed murderous hoodlums rampaging across all spectrum of the Nigerian society and especially in the terror-torn North Eastern parts of Nigeria, the nation needs all the combined forces it can mobilise to progressively defeat once and for all these grave threats to the territorial integrity and the sovereign rights of Nigeria and Nigerians. The group wants all politicians who truly love Nigeria to bury the hatchets and combine forces with the central government to fight reactionary elements seeking to destroy Nigeria from the World’s map through terrorism.
HURIWA also asked the Presidency to direct the retinue of aides to desist from issuing messages that create further disunity and polarization of Nigerians along political divides.
It said: “Presidential aides must not turn their offices to partisan war fronts since they are called to offer national service to the Fatherland through the office of the President of all Nigerians elected by the electorate that cut across all party affiliations.
“It is unthinkable that politicians are apparently chasing after rats even while the Nigerian house is on fire. This attitude is satanic and reprehensible because if nothing concrete is done to join forces with the current Federal Government to wage result oriented battle against the armed Islamic insurgents then soon we may not have a country to call our own.”
In a statement by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA urged national leaders of all major political parties in Nigeria to immediately hold a national conference in a very quiet part of the country far away from the boisterous nation’s capital of Abuja to brainstorm on strategies and practical modalities for the immediate but enforceable declaration of national period of truce, quiet and unity.
It said the major component would include the cessation of all subterranean plots to impeach state governors by members of the 36 states houses of assembly for the time being.
Besides, HURIWA also called on INEC as the only statutory body recognized by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999, as amended, to monitor how the registered political parties are administered, to immediately call to order with a threat of sanction the national spokespersons of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, and compel them to stop making seditious statements capable of truncating the current democratic atmosphere in the country.
HURIWA said: “INEC must act fast and be decisive in ensuring that political parties registered under the Nigerian constitution are not converted to weapons of generating national disunity and war among the different segments and fault lines inherent in the Nigerian state. INEC must save the Nigerian democracy from collapsing under the heavy fire power of hate messages that are spewing out from the offices of the national publicity secretaries of both the Peoples Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives Congress. The office of the National Security Adviser to the President should also be concerned about the ugly turn of hate messages that are churned out by the two leading political parties of Nigeria because these divisive and emotional sentiments are clear and present danger to Nigeria’s national security.”
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