Campaign for Democracy threatens unrest over insecurity, maladministration

• Gives Buhari six-month ultimatum

The Campaign for Democracy has passed a vote of no confidence in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari due to its inability to arrest the spate killings and other forms of insecurity in Nigeria.

Even as it decried the lopsidedness in the political appointments made by the President since he assumed office, the group gave Buhari six months to restore peace to the country or face a civil unrest.

These were some of the resolutions of the rights group reached at a meeting held shortly after the burial of Afenifere scribe, Yinka Odumakin, at Moro, Osun State.

A communiqué issued by the group and signed by Bayo Obatugase and Ifeanyi Odili, its deputy president national general secretary respectively.

It stated, “The CD passed a vote of no confidence in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for maladministration occasioning the following: insecurity across Nigeria; ethnic chauvinism which is glaringly clear in all the federal political appointments; oppression of certain ethnic nationalities and Fulanization of Nigeria by Fulani oligarchy, in which President Muhammadu Buhari belongs; indifferent, uncaring and unresponsive attitude to the lives of Nigerians; mass poverty ravaging every home across Nigeria; high rate of petroleum prices and devaluation of naira and above all, gross incompetence to give Nigerians the democracy of their dreams.”

The group dismissed the insinuation that it had abandoned its years of struggle fpr the emancipation of the Nigerian masses, adding that it only decided to give the political class a long rope to pull.

It stated that after assessing the state of nation, “the CD resolved to give President Buhari an ultimatum of six months to return Nigeria to her right path or quit, failure which, he risks civil disobedience/passive resistance from Nigerian masses.

“We have been forbidden to sit back and watch political class and ethnic bigots killing Nigerian citizens; annihilating our basis of existence on the altar of partisan politics.”

It commended the initiative of the South-West and South-East governors to combat crime in the face of rising cases of insecurity,

It expressed support for state police, noting, “apart from the fact that state police is an imperative for true federalism in Nigeria, it is the harbinger of a new era in Nigeria; a forerunner to restructuring of Nigerian nation.”

Speaking on the demise of Odumakin, the CD described it a painful loss and condoled with the widow, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin and urged her to take solace in the fact that Odumakin died on his sick bed and not in the hands of terrorists.