Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has
called on the visiting German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to help prevail on the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to adhere to the rule of law and
respect the fundamental human rights of Nigerians as part of her engagements
during her visit.
Frank said this has become
necessary to save democracy and also stem the growing tide of intimidation,
harassment, intolerance and desperation by the current administration as the
2019 general elections draw near.
He also appealed to Merkel to ask
Buhari 10 questions he said needed urgent answers.
Frank listed them thus:
“1. Is Buhari a democrat or an
authoritarian/dictatorial President?
2. Is Buhari fighting corruption
or shielding alleged corrupt persons who now find the APC under his leadership
a safe haven to escape prosecution?
3. Why is Buhari desperate to get
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki forcefully removed as President of the Senate – by
hook or crook – through the invasion of the Senate by thugs and recent siege on
the National Assembly by a section of the nation’s security apparatus.
4. Why is Buhari and APC trying
to truncate democracy by refusing to prosecute those who have violated the
sanctity of the parliament through the recent brazen invasion/siege on the
National Assembly?
5. Why has Buhari not ensured the
release of Leah Sharibu – the Dapchi school girl – who has continued to
languish in captivity after others girls that were kidnapped together have
since regained freedom through government’s direct intervention?
6. Why has Buhari kept the Leader
of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheik El-Zakzaky in detention for
over three years despite several court rulings granting him bail?
7. Similarly, why has Buhari
refused Col. Sambo Dasuki to go home after six court judgements, including the
ECOWAS Court of Justice, that have granting him bail?
8. How can Buhari claim to
champion an anti-corruption fight when the APC under his leadership continues
to compromise the nation’s electoral process through open vote buying to win
elections?
9. Why has Buhari continued to
gag the press through arrests and long detentions as witnessed in the case of
Jones Abiri – a Port Harcourt based journalist – who was detained without trial
for two years and a Premium Times reporter, Samuel Ogundipe who was
incarcerated for failing to disclose his sources to the police?
10. Why has Buhari refused to
name murderous Fulani herdsmen as a terrorist organization just like he did to
the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)?”
He further noted that if the
tension and instability occasioned in the country by the dictatorial tendencies
of the present administration is not curbed, bilateral or multilateral
agreements entered into by the country will be nugatory abinitio without peace,
political stability and social cohesion.
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