The third force movement under the auspices of the Nigeria Intervention Movement has given President Muhammadu Buhari seven days to reinstate the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, or face an unprecedented mass action from the group and its allies until the President’s unpopular decision is rescinded
The NIM, being jointly led by a frontline civil rights activist and legal icon, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), and the son of former Prme Minister of Nigeria, Dr. Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa, said it viewed the suspension of the CJN and “the precipitate swearing in of the President’s kinsman, Justice Tanko Ibrahim Mohammed,” as a threat to Nigeria’s fledgling democracy and the feasibility of the 2019 general elections as well a desperation to compromise all relevant Institutions of state ahead of the 2019 elections
It said: “By this statement, we wish to put President Buhari on a strong notice that at the end of seven days from today, if President Buhari fails to reinstate the CJN we shall be compelled to mobilise a Coalition Forces of Nigerian Civil society and leaders of conscience across the country to confront the Buhari regime with an unprecedented mass action to save Nigeria’s democracy
“We wish to assert that the action of the President today is subjudice, smacks of crass dictatorship and a setback for constitutional democracy in our country, just as it is a clear descent of civil rule to the dark days of military jackboot in Nigeria as recently alerted by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and we in NIM, who fought with our lives to restore Nigaria’s current democracy, have vowed to resist the dastardly move of the Buhari regime to cage all institutions of State ahead of the 2019 elections, with every resources at our disposal”
The meeting of the coalition of forces against civilian dictatorship in Nigeria has been slated to hold on January 31 in Lagos to kick start a nationwide mobilisation to save democracy ahead of the 2019 elections
The NIM, being jointly led by a frontline civil rights activist and legal icon, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), and the son of former Prme Minister of Nigeria, Dr. Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa, said it viewed the suspension of the CJN and “the precipitate swearing in of the President’s kinsman, Justice Tanko Ibrahim Mohammed,” as a threat to Nigeria’s fledgling democracy and the feasibility of the 2019 general elections as well a desperation to compromise all relevant Institutions of state ahead of the 2019 elections
It said: “By this statement, we wish to put President Buhari on a strong notice that at the end of seven days from today, if President Buhari fails to reinstate the CJN we shall be compelled to mobilise a Coalition Forces of Nigerian Civil society and leaders of conscience across the country to confront the Buhari regime with an unprecedented mass action to save Nigeria’s democracy
“We wish to assert that the action of the President today is subjudice, smacks of crass dictatorship and a setback for constitutional democracy in our country, just as it is a clear descent of civil rule to the dark days of military jackboot in Nigeria as recently alerted by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and we in NIM, who fought with our lives to restore Nigaria’s current democracy, have vowed to resist the dastardly move of the Buhari regime to cage all institutions of State ahead of the 2019 elections, with every resources at our disposal”
The meeting of the coalition of forces against civilian dictatorship in Nigeria has been slated to hold on January 31 in Lagos to kick start a nationwide mobilisation to save democracy ahead of the 2019 elections
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