…Says Nigerian rulers are worse than hardened criminals
Abuja, Nigeria – With few days to the commencement of the planned protests in Nigeria, scheduled to start on August 1, 2024, victims of bad leadership have been urged to be resolute in delivering a strong message to their tormentors.
Renowned human rights and pro-democracy activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, made the call in Abuja on Monday July 29, 2024, in a press statement, titled: “Days of Rage: Victims of Bad Leadership Must Be Resolute”.
Comrade Nowinta, an international conflict resolution expert, who doubles as the Executive Director, Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre, said it is “beyond pardon that a tiny group of political criminals have succeeded within a short time to turn a country bubbling with inexhaustible raw materials and endless opportunities into a place of hell for fellow Nigerians.”
He said no one can sugar coat the terrible fact of the matter today in Nigeria that “a very sick ruling gang hopelessly dishonest has turned millions of Nigerians into victims of their catastrophic misrule”.
“Instead of providing positive leadership this evil gang is already thinking of 2027; to us at Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre, this is the heights of affront and unimaginable insults.
Nowinta described Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s continued leadership at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a tragedy of monumental proportions, “given what he did to us during the 2003 presidential elections”
He noted: “The pauperization of Nigerian people has amazingly gone full circle. Who says those who have been victimized beyond every limits in a country flowing with milk and honey should not rage to express their displeasure with those tormenting them? Who says those who have been gradually sentenced to certain death as a result of bad governance should not vent their anger?
“It is simply beyond pardon that a tiny group of political criminals have succeeded within a short time to turn a country bubbling with inexhaustible raw materials and endless opportunities into a place of hell for fellow Nigerians. Victimized Nigerians must be ready to rage to prove a point to their tormentors. Those who plunged millions of Nigerians into the present unthinkable economic catastrophe are worst than hardened criminals”
“In a country where the removal of fuel subsidy has become a big conduit pipe to service egocentric desires of political rascals at the highest levels of government, while majority of Nigerians continues to wallop in abject poverty, squalor and disease, the people must rage to register their grievances”
“Looking beyond days of rage in August, patriotic Nigerians must invent a veritable platform and a reliable permanent channel for the sustainability of the struggle to reclaim Nigerian state. We must continue to fan the flames of resistance to those practicing leadership insanity in our country”.
“Our ultimate aim must be to take down these despotic lunatics”.
