The All Nigeria Save Democracy Movement, ANSADEM, has issued
a strong statement to the Nigerian Senate that if it confirms Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro to a ministerial post, it will face mass action.
The warning was conveyed by the group at a press conference
held Tuesday at the Centre for Constitutional Governance in Ilupeju, Lagos
State.
Comrade Adebayo, the convener of the group, read the press
statement saying “confirming Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as minister would be
tantamount to a big disservice to the fatherland and a direct attack on
Nigeria’s democracy”.
“We call on the Senate to exercise a great sense of
responsibility and leadership by first probing the involvement of Senator
Obanikoro in that shameful saga before screening him for a ministerial post”.
The group has also mass-produced the Ekiti rigging audio
tape detailing Obanikoro’s shameful acts, which is to be “distributed free to
Nigerians across the country, the diplomatic community, and international
institutions including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court,
and the African Union”.
Adebayo said that the “removal of Professor Jega at this
time is sure to rob the 2015 general elections of all credibility credentials”
and therefore “we condemn and call on Nigerians to resist any attempt to
postpone the elections again or illegally remove Professor Attahiru Jega as
INEC chairman before his terms runs its course”.
The group described “the electioneering campaigns of the
major political parties PDP and APC, which have been characterized more by
mutual character assassinations and infantile exhibition of political
immaturity, rather than basing their campaigns on critical and beneficial
national issues strewn with elements of superior arguments and sophisticated
intellects”.
The group denounced and condemned “the nefarious activities
of spokespersons of politicians who attack our sensibilities in a daily display
of ‘toutish’ outbursts”, just as it also frowned at “the sudden intrusion
by the military into the electoral process”.
The group said it viewed the military’s incursion into the
electoral process as a major threat to democratic institutions, adding that the
current core of service chiefs, the National security Adviser, and the IGP must
be prosecuted for treason, for holding Nigerians and Nigeria to ransom at their
selfish whims.