President Muhammadu Buhari
The Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has introduced gunpoint democracy to the country.
This was in reaction to the sack of the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura after the invasion of the National Assembly by officials of the agency on Tuesday.
The R-APC condemned the development and lamented the partisanship of Nigeria’s security agencies.
“At what point did we descend to this level of unruly behaviour and sheer political hooliganism?” the R-APC wondered in the statement.
At what point did we miss the compass that should ordinarily take us away from this Pharaoh era, where wickedness, primitiveness and prebendalism appear to be the only thematic focus of a privileged few, trying in their greed and self-aggrandizement, to perpetually ridicule our collective sufferance?
“We weep for our dear country. We shed tears of anguish and sorrow. We are pained by the gunpoint democracy that President Muhammadu Buhari has introduced to our body politic.
“We condemn the continued partisanship of the security agencies against the interest of Nigerians.
“We wish to insist that these categories of persons be denied visas or have their visas revoked on account of their anti-democratic conducts which have consistently threatened the very foundation of our fledgling democracy.”
As stated by the statement, “This action of the APC against the senate president, and its desperate plot to unseat him has permanently left a gory scar on our democracy. APC has literally changed its name to All Political Coupists, or better still All Progressives Coupists.
“Conveying masked operatives of the DSS to the hallowed ground of the national assembly to subvert the will of the people against an arm of government is the most ridiculous conduct by trained secret service agents. In fact, the DSS has become more or less the armed wing of the APC.
“Let us for once instill some sanity in our democratic practices. Let us assume our role as the giant of Africa both in deeds and practice.”