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deomelo:
Imagine such insane, vile and inciting rhetoric coming from a major political party.

This is way beyond madness, desperation and absurdity.


These crude, crass, incompetent and senseless people should never be allowed to run or manage anything on the surface of the earth.

adeyemiayoblog:
January 15, 2019

Press Conference

Fascism: Get Ready To Defend Your Country, PDP Charges Nigerians

Gentlemen of the press, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today, makes a clarion call to all Nigerians to brace up for the February 16, 2019 Presidential election as the only way to defend and save our nation from the fascism being plotted by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nigerians are already aware that the APC and the Buhari Presidency are not serious with campaigns ahead of the Presidential elections. They know that the APC and its candidate, President Buhari are seeking ways to enmesh the election in crisis, stalemate the electoral process and pave the way for rigging and actualization of plots to perpetuate President Buhari in office.

With the prevailing state of our polity; the flagrant violation of our constitution, continuous attacks on institutions of democracy and principle of separation of powers, consistent abuse of human rights, erosion of personal freedom, uninhibited extra-judicial killings, illegal detention, attack on peaceful protesters, clampdown on the media and vocal members of the Civil Society, as well as the unleashing of brutality on innocent citizens, that have characterized the Buhari Presidency; it is manifestly clear that our nation is on a rapid descent into fascism, which we must all resist with our votes.

The PPCO urges all compatriots to note that any vote for APC is an endorsement of fascism and allowing President Buhari another tenure will be a pathway to full totalitarianism, where citizens would be treated as vassals in a conquered territory.

Today, our freedom and personal liberty as a people are under threat. Our rights as constitutionally guaranteed as citizens are about to be completely taken away. Our last lines of defence as a free people; our legislature and our judiciary are also under siege.

We are all witnesses to the unrelenting assault on the institution of the judiciary and the courts by the Buhari Presidency and the APC. This siege on the Judiciary has now come to a climax with the widely condemned attempt by the Buhari Presidency and the APC to forcefully remove the Chief Justice of the Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen.

In spite of widespread condemnation, President Buhari and the APC have refused to show remorse. If anything, they have carried on as if Nigerians are already a conquered people.

This ignoble act is with the view to replace Justice Onnoghen with a pliable CJN that will execute the plot to annex the court and use them to curtail freedom of expression and to silence opposition members as well as perceived opponents of the Buhari administration ahead of the February election.

Such attempt at annexations is to subject judicial officers under the control of the Attorney General to determine and even write judgments on political and human rights cases and cover atrocities of anti-democratic forces.

The world can recall how the Buhari Presidency, in a widely condemned ‘sting operation’ in 2016, used the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to hound and round up sitting Supreme Court and High Court judges in Nigeria.

Since that ‘sting operation’, our judiciary Nigeria has remained under siege with the agents of the Buhari Presidency and the APC directly interfering in cases and trying to direct the rulings of courts.

Nigerians and the world can recall also how agents of the Buhari Presidency and the APC, last year, besieged and attempted to forcefully remove the elected leadership of the National Assembly; the symbol of our democracy.

Nigerians will also recall how the APC and the Buhari Presidency used apparatus of state powers to seal the legislative complex, unleashed thugs to invade the Senate chamber, disrupted legislative proceedings and forcefully carted away the mace, the emblem of the sovereignty and authority of the people.

In our slide into fascism, Nigerians are daily falling victims of extreme torture, illegal detention, extra-judicial and arbitrary killings, forceful crackdown on peaceful protesters and mass burial by unrestrained agents of the state, as detailed in the 2017/2018 Amnesty International (AI) Human Rights Report.

In the same vein, there have been concerted efforts by the government to gag the media leading to the manhandling of journalists and invasion of media houses over reports considered unfavorable to government.

Furthermore, Nigerians can recall how the Buhari Presidency attempted to inject crisis into the electoral process with the delay in the presentation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) election budget and the refusal by President Buhari to sign the amendments to the Electoral Act which eliminates openings for rigging.

This is in addition to the widely condemned foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation by marriage, as head of the collation of results of the Presidential poll as well as plot to use the Police as suppressive tool to intimidate voters and assist APC agents to unleash violence and manipulate the process, for which President Buhari is bent on retaining the overtly partisan Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris even when his tenure had expired.

This administration has turned out to be the most vicious in the history of our nation. Nigerians and the world must therefore rise in condemnation of this dangerous drift towards, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Idi Amin’s Uganda, Charles Taylor’s Liberia and Than Shwe’s Burma.

Perhaps, President Buhari has forgotten that Nigeria is a democratic state, and needs to be reminded that as a people, we have chosen democracy as a form of government with the personal freedom, liberty and rule of law that it guarantees. Nigerians will never accept any kind of draconian rule and dictatorial tendencies.

We therefore charge all Nigerians; all victims of injustice and brutality of the Buhari Presidency; all victims of the mindless killings encouraged by the insensitivity of the Buhari Presidency; all those impoverished by the corruption and incompetence of the Buhari administration and all lovers of democracy in Nigeria to get ready to defend our nation and save her from fascism by voting out President Buhari on February 16, 2019.

The February Presidential election is therefore a referendum for our freedom. We make a clarion call on Nigerians to vote in defence of our nation. We must vote in defence of our rights and lives as free citizens; we must vote in defence of rule of law and resistance of repressive forces and political bandits seeking to foist a fascist regime on our nation.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization

livelymatilda22:
Trash

Princedapace:
U are an evil. Nigeria needs at least two party system.. Leaving Nigeria solely to one party is the biggest mistake we will ever make..

By the time the elites fix only their kids and families into strategic powerful positions while u worship them for the rest of ur life and that of ur kids, ur eyes go clear. Evil.

tsephanyah:
The president is systematically replacing all the big tribes with skinny tribes and you people don't seem to care. ���

PMB is also skinny.

All my big people should come out to protest this attack on our democracy.

adeyemiayoblog:
January 15, 2019

Press Conference

Fascism: Get Ready To Defend Your Country, PDP Charges Nigerians

Gentlemen of the press, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today, makes a clarion call to all Nigerians to brace up for the February 16, 2019 Presidential election as the only way to defend and save our nation from the fascism being plotted by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nigerians are already aware that the APC and the Buhari Presidency are not serious with campaigns ahead of the Presidential elections. They know that the APC and its candidate, President Buhari are seeking ways to enmesh the election in crisis, stalemate the electoral process and pave the way for rigging and actualization of plots to perpetuate President Buhari in office.

With the prevailing state of our polity; the flagrant violation of our constitution, continuous attacks on institutions of democracy and principle of separation of powers, consistent abuse of human rights, erosion of personal freedom, uninhibited extra-judicial killings, illegal detention, attack on peaceful protesters, clampdown on the media and vocal members of the Civil Society, as well as the unleashing of brutality on innocent citizens, that have characterized the Buhari Presidency; it is manifestly clear that our nation is on a rapid descent into fascism, which we must all resist with our votes.

The PPCO urges all compatriots to note that any vote for APC is an endorsement of fascism and allowing President Buhari another tenure will be a pathway to full totalitarianism, where citizens would be treated as vassals in a conquered territory.

Today, our freedom and personal liberty as a people are under threat. Our rights as constitutionally guaranteed as citizens are about to be completely taken away. Our last lines of defence as a free people; our legislature and our judiciary are also under siege.

We are all witnesses to the unrelenting assault on the institution of the judiciary and the courts by the Buhari Presidency and the APC. This siege on the Judiciary has now come to a climax with the widely condemned attempt by the Buhari Presidency and the APC to forcefully remove the Chief Justice of the Nigeria, (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen.

In spite of widespread condemnation, President Buhari and the APC have refused to show remorse. If anything, they have carried on as if Nigerians are already a conquered people.

This ignoble act is with the view to replace Justice Onnoghen with a pliable CJN that will execute the plot to annex the court and use them to curtail freedom of expression and to silence opposition members as well as perceived opponents of the Buhari administration ahead of the February election.

Such attempt at annexations is to subject judicial officers under the control of the Attorney General to determine and even write judgments on political and human rights cases and cover atrocities of anti-democratic forces.

The world can recall how the Buhari Presidency, in a widely condemned ‘sting operation’ in 2016, used the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to hound and round up sitting Supreme Court and High Court judges in Nigeria.

Since that ‘sting operation’, our judiciary Nigeria has remained under siege with the agents of the Buhari Presidency and the APC directly interfering in cases and trying to direct the rulings of courts.

Nigerians and the world can recall also how agents of the Buhari Presidency and the APC, last year, besieged and attempted to forcefully remove the elected leadership of the National Assembly; the symbol of our democracy.

Nigerians will also recall how the APC and the Buhari Presidency used apparatus of state powers to seal the legislative complex, unleashed thugs to invade the Senate chamber, disrupted legislative proceedings and forcefully carted away the mace, the emblem of the sovereignty and authority of the people.

In our slide into fascism, Nigerians are daily falling victims of extreme torture, illegal detention, extra-judicial and arbitrary killings, forceful crackdown on peaceful protesters and mass burial by unrestrained agents of the state, as detailed in the 2017/2018 Amnesty International (AI) Human Rights Report.

In the same vein, there have been concerted efforts by the government to gag the media leading to the manhandling of journalists and invasion of media houses over reports considered unfavorable to government.

Furthermore, Nigerians can recall how the Buhari Presidency attempted to inject crisis into the electoral process with the delay in the presentation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) election budget and the refusal by President Buhari to sign the amendments to the Electoral Act which eliminates openings for rigging.

This is in addition to the widely condemned foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation by marriage, as head of the collation of results of the Presidential poll as well as plot to use the Police as suppressive tool to intimidate voters and assist APC agents to unleash violence and manipulate the process, for which President Buhari is bent on retaining the overtly partisan Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris even when his tenure had expired.

This administration has turned out to be the most vicious in the history of our nation. Nigerians and the world must therefore rise in condemnation of this dangerous drift towards, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Idi Amin’s Uganda, Charles Taylor’s Liberia and Than Shwe’s Burma.

Perhaps, President Buhari has forgotten that Nigeria is a democratic state, and needs to be reminded that as a people, we have chosen democracy as a form of government with the personal freedom, liberty and rule of law that it guarantees. Nigerians will never accept any kind of draconian rule and dictatorial tendencies.

We therefore charge all Nigerians; all victims of injustice and brutality of the Buhari Presidency; all victims of the mindless killings encouraged by the insensitivity of the Buhari Presidency; all those impoverished by the corruption and incompetence of the Buhari administration and all lovers of democracy in Nigeria to get ready to defend our nation and save her from fascism by voting out President Buhari on February 16, 2019.

The February Presidential election is therefore a referendum for our freedom. We make a clarion call on Nigerians to vote in defence of our nation. We must vote in defence of our rights and lives as free citizens; we must vote in defence of rule of law and resistance of repressive forces and political bandits seeking to foist a fascist regime on our nation.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization

afroniger:
What is with this wolf crying by PDP lately? Is that how they intend to take over power? They might as well call on the military to come and take over. Nonsense.

livelymatilda22:
Nobody says Nigeria should be a one party country?... There are other parties apart from Pdp... You and Pdp are the real evil souls that don't want the progress of this country.

Stop typing trash.

Princedapace:
[s]
U are making a fool of ur self.. Pdp members keep decamping to ApC and u are celebrating it.

What is pdp and ApC? The other parties u talked about, how strong are they to withstand the plan of turning Nigeria into a one party state?

If Bokula saraki decambs back to ApC, won't u rejoice? Does party change anyone? Party is made up of humans.. How has Tinubu in ApC changed from the Tinubu we have known all these years?

Atiku was once in ApC, he came back to pdp, he is still Atiku. Amaechu has been in power for over 16 years. It is a pity how u the masses don't understand how these politicians play this game.

As long as those elites are up there, they don't care, the lease we can hope for is to have equal elites to checkmate the other elites, else the country is doomed forever. If the country continues like this, in ten years time, only Buhari and his family members and his cabals will be running all the sectors of the country.. The plan is to cage Nigeria like Tinubu did to lagos and Saraki did to Kwara state.

If u get brain, this must be resisted. If other parties have the power to wrestle it from ApC, no problem, but since they can't, we have to make do with pdp for now. Next, ApC can come back. If the political class understands that two terms is not a birth right, the better for us. [/s]

livelymatilda22:
You just confirmed to me that you lack brain.. Please do well to acquire some.. Good luck.

Princedapace:
U lack brain.. U cant put up a point. A simple point but to abuve someone.

My prayer is I hope u are among the elites.. I hope u aren't among those coming to me for one help or the other.. Since u have vowed to be completely insane.

madridsta007:
Blunt truth from the PDP.

But fascism is never resisted with votes. At least not in the history of places where it was resisted.

People resisted fascism with serious and consistent protests at the cost of their lives. Unless Nigerians present a united (United? Impossible with Nigeria) front and protest (protest? Impossible with Nigerians) this regime will continue beyond 2019. And that’s the fact.

efficiencie:
How come you and other concerned Nigerians never protested since 1999!? When statutory allocation to Lagos was blocked by OBJ did you and other concerned Nigerians do anything? When planes were dropping out of the sky like meteors, did anybody call for a national protest!? What of when over 18 billion dollars was cumulatively squandered under the guise of power sector reforms I did not hear of any protest! Nigerians endured all the way...they endured for 16 years! Now the same people who ran the torture camp called Nigeria now want you Nigerians to fight the current established order in favor of them...and all of a sudden people are feeling revolutionary after 4 years of anti-PDP rule! Clowns full this country!!!

maestroferdi:
You are not making sense...

livelymatilda22:
Lol...i don't know why you are now feeling pain? You insulted me first by saying I don't have brain/sense...Do you expect me to be happy with you because you are a Trillionaire? It doesn't work that way..

What help have you been rendering ooo.. I am interested if it will uplift my life..

Please enough of the insults... Seriously

Princedapace:
I am not a trillionaire. My point is as u support the current political system, be ready to run from the country becus if it continues like this, the country will turn into one family business. It is happening in many African countries and her citizens are not smiling about it. Just make sure u have enough to run.

madridsta007:
Not sure where you were, my brother. Certainly not so conversant with events back home.
You must have missed the Oil Subsidy protests and many others that have happened in the past. Bring Back Our Girls protests too.
But I will help you. Here is a reference of one of the protests held in Nigeria. I hope this helps.

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/april-2012/bid-end-subsidy-stirs-protest-nigeria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Nigeria