Civil societies across the nation have condemned the recent endorsement of a successor by the Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime.
This was at a joint consultative session organised by a pro-democracy group, The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency, which gave knocks to Chime over what it termed coronation before ceremony by his recent endorsement of a sole candidate for the 2015 Enugu State governorship election.
In a release signed by its Executive Director of Operations, Dr. Rotimi Adeola, the group described the action of the governor and his cronies as an Ebola that is fast spreading to other parts of the country with serious dire consequences on the tenets of democracy.
Dr. Adeola further cautioned that such practice must be checked before it eats up the entire democratic space and perpetuates some highly placed persons in authority for more than the eight good years.
Lamenting the action, the civil societies said it was such arrangement that produced Chime, who nearly brought the state to moral disrepute when he locked up his wife only for well meaning Nigerians to intervene to avert more embarassment to the state.
According to Adeola, the said endorsement is an obvious indication that Chime and his likes were ready to replicate same at the polls.
The statement said: “With this endorsement we are left in no doubt that Chime is set to rig the general elections to favour his anointed. If they have started imposing at this stage, imagine what they will do at the general elections.”
The statement advised the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party to look into what it termed a kangaroo endorsement with a view to reversing it and the institution of legality to deepen internal democracy in the party.
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