A public affairs analyst and activist, Adekunle Adebayo, has raised the alarm over what he described as a plot to arrest and intimidate key opposition figures in Nigeria, together with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Adebayo disclosed this in an announcement made obtainable to DAILY POST on Tuesday, warning that the alleged transfer kinds a part of a wider technique to weaken opposition politics and entrench a de facto one-party system within the nation.
He alleged that Atiku Abubakar, Rotimi Amaechi, and former Kaduna State G overnor Nasir el-Rufai have been marked for arrest.
In accordance to him, different outstanding political figures, together with Isa Ali Pantami, Rauf Aregbesola, Kashim Ibrahim Imam, and others, are additionally being focused.
Adebayo additional claimed that the alleged plan follows earlier arrests and detentions of former governors of Sokoto and Anambra states, Aminu Tambuwal and Chris Ngige, in addition to former Legal professional Normal of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
He warned that if the reported arrests are carried out, they’d quantity to severe violations of the 1999 Structure (as amended), citing threats to private liberty, freedom of affiliation and expression, equality earlier than the legislation, and the independence of the judiciary.
“Selective software of legislation enforcement primarily based on political affiliation is incompatible with constitutional democracy,” Adebayo acknowledged.
He urged Nigerians, civil society organisations, and the worldwide neighborhood to carefully monitor unfolding occasions, cautioning that the nation dangers sliding right into a system the place democratic establishments exist solely in kind, whereas political energy is consolidated by coercion and selective justice.
