CD, HURIDE Condemn Malami Over State Of Emergency Call

CAMPAIGN for Democracy (CD) and Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation (HURIDE), has condemned the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami’s call for a state of emergency in Anambra state.

The group, while condemning the call for a state of emergency to be declared in Anambra, also called on the President to sack the AGF, saying it is clear that the AGF has no integrity and patriotism to be a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

According to them, Abubakar Malami has shown that he can not grow beyond ethnic, religious and party biases.

The Chairman of CD in South East and Executive Director, HURIDE, Dede Uzor A Uzor, lambasted the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for contemplating declaring a State of Emergency in Anambra State at a time like this when the people are getting set to elect a new governor.

The Chairman said some elements around the President want to hijack the forthcoming Nov 6, gubernatorial elections in Anambra.

He said it is sad that in this age and time someone would be contemplating a state of emergency as a way for the All Progressives Congress (APC), to hijack power in Anambra State.

They accused Malami of plotting to remove democratic structures in the State to allow APC to rig the November 6 election since all their plots have been hitting the rock.

“Why will APC want to impose a state of emergency in Anambra State where there is minimal security breach or challenge.

The Chairman said it is comical, that Malami was thinking of imposing a State of emergency in Anambra based on reports of few selected killings in the state but turned blind eyes on massive killings in the entire North East and West, where Boko  Haram, Fulani bandits and Herdsmen have sacked the residents and taken over.

They said that states in North East and West like Borno, Zamfara, Kaduna, Katsina, Adamawa, Yobe even Plateau, Benue and the Imo States have been witnessing unprecedented bloodletting but Malami has not thought of declaring a State of emergency in those States.

The Anambra State Governorship election given as the reason for contemplating a state of emergency does not arise because Kaduna and the Borno  States, the worst States security-wise in the country, just conducted Local Government elections and there was no State of emergency there.

Those two States mentioned above conducted their  Local Government election without a State of emergency. Why must Anambra be different?

The rights group have however called on the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), African Union (AU), United States of America (USA), Great Britain, Canada to call Buhari and his Fulani cabals not to try anything funny in the South East by imposing State of emergency in any part of South East.