Don’t Use Alleged Coup Plot To Clamp Down On Opposition, ADC Tells Federal Govt

African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned the national authorities against utilizing the caller quality of an alleged coup crippled to clamp down connected absorption leaders and statesman extra-judicial surveillance connected voices that disagree with the government.

The ADC besides called connected the national authorities to instantly clarify the existent quality of the alleged coup.

The ADC’s nationalist publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said it viewed immoderate menace to Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian bid with utmost seriousness but warned that the national authorities indispensable not exploit this infinitesimal to instill fear, soundlessness dissenting voices, oregon technologist governmental vantage nether the guise of nationalist security.

The enactment added that it has been intimately monitoring the reports of an alleged coup crippled involving arrested subject officers and consequent media claims that a erstwhile confederate politician is nether probe for allegedly backing the suspects.

The enactment said portion it vehemently opposes immoderate effort to undermine Nigeria’s law order, it is arsenic acrophobic astir the imaginable misuse of specified allegations to warrant governmental witch-hunts, suppress dissent, oregon manipulate nationalist sentiment.

“We are peculiarly acrophobic astir the conflicting signals coming from authorities sources, particularly arsenic the Defence Headquarters has publically denied ever mentioning a coup plot, contempt wide media reports to the contrary. Such inconsistency raises superior fears that the coup communicative whitethorn person been politically engineered.

“The ADC is peculiarly acrophobic that the national authorities has not deemed it acceptable to marque a categorical connection connected this precise superior matter, particularly aft the subject authorities had repeatedly denied that determination was specified a menace to the government. By keeping quiet, the authorities has deliberately allowed the coup communicative to fester for immoderate reason.

“What is clear, however, is that the authorities is exploiting the coup communicative to divert attraction from the existent issues of misgovernance successful the state and to curry sympathy. Even much significantly, consequent unattributed media reports purportedly implicating unnamed politicians successful the alleged crippled present supply a pretext for the authorities to clamp down connected absorption figures oregon equine undue surveillance connected them.

“We recognize that the APC authorities is desperate. But specified desperation indispensable ne'er beryllium allowed to endanger our ideology oregon undermine the antiauthoritarian rights of citizens.”

The ADC truthful called connected the national authorities to instantly clarify the existent quality of the alleged coup.

Abdullahi added that the authorities has a work to decisively quash the swirling rumour.

“Conversely, if so determination has been immoderate specified menace to nationalist security, the authorities has a work to beryllium transparent astir it and little the federation accordingly.”

The enactment added that the authorities indispensable desist from weaponising nationalist information arsenic a pretext to soundlessness absorption and governmental dissent.

“The ADC is resolute successful its absorption to dictatorship of immoderate form, whether subject dictatorship oregon its civilian variant.

“We truthful enactment immoderate morganatic enactment that whitethorn beryllium taken successful defence of our constitution and our democracy.

“In the aforesaid vein, we reason immoderate ploy by the authorities to intimidate morganatic voices nether the guise of nationalist security,” the enactment said.