Group Alerts International Community Of Buhari’s Plan To Arrest Atiku, Other Opponents, Rig Polls
The International community has been called upon to pressurize President Muhammad Buhari to keep to promise made to British Prime Minister in 2018 to conduct free and fair elections as well as ensure liberty of his opponents.
The call was made in a statement signed by the President of the Concerned Nigerian Patriots For A Sustainable Future (CNPFSF), Adebola Eze Sakir, made available to newsmen on Sunday January 20, 2019.
“Furthermore we call on the international community to apply all possible pressure on President Buhari to keep his promise to the British Prime Minister in August 2018 and the Nigerian people to hold “free and fair elections” which includes the liberty of his opponents to stand freely and without any form of pretences or artificial hindrances,” it stated.
The group expressed fears that President Buhari was bent on introducing the tragic years of his military regime, by arresting political opponents.
“Instead we have received top information by the Buhari regime to reenact the tragic years of his miltitary tyranny of 1983-1985 by arresting and incarcerating his perceived enemies to include leaders of the opposition, traditional rulers, members of the organized labour, journalists, social media interactors and Nigerian judges,” it stressed.
It explained that the signs are crystal clear, hence the need to call on the need for international community to intervene.
“The signs are crystal. A few days ago, Lai Mohammed , Information Minister boasted that the former Vice President and the main opposition candidate in the upcoming elections Mr Atiku Abubakar will be arrested on charges bothering on alleged N156 million fraud perpetrated in the erstwhile Bank PHB in 2009. The bank has since metamorphosed into Keystone Bank,” it pointed out.
The group noted that recently, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar called on the Federal Government to investigate the buy-over of the Keystone Bank, thereby, it condemned the planned arrest of Atiku or any senior member of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).