Pro-democracy Group tasks political actors on fairness decries the state of affairs in Nigeria
By Chijindu Emeruwa
A pro-democracy group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has harped on equity and fairness to achieve a peaceful transition of power in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The body also expressed deep worries on the level of wanton destruction of lives and properties brought upon on the country and its different parts by political actors of the recent past and the incumbent, regretting that the nation’s economy has been mismanaged and battered that Zimbabwe is now much better off.
The organization made her position known in a worded statement jointly signed by its Board of Trustees Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi, Head, Democracy and Good Governance, Chinese Umeche, and Head, Campaign and Publicity, Chidinma Eva Udegbunam.
The statement forwarded to our correspondent on Thursday was coming on the heels of a sorry state of affairs in Nigeria and as well as myriads of challenges impeding her socio-economic and Infrastructural development.
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The civil liberty group remote posited that the nation’s current political actors since 2015 are incompetent, governance empty, selfish and clannish that they have dangerously balkanized and sectionalized the country along with chronic ethnic and religious divisions and dominance.
According to non-governmental organizations, “this is to the extent leading sectional and religiously radicalized political actors in the country have continued the old anarchist, exclusionist and segregationist political gamesmanship whereby “they are born to rule” while others are born to be ruled”.
The organization also reechoed several calls by critical stakeholders and socio-cultural and political groups for power shift to the southeast zone ahead of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, appealing to political actors in the north-central, southwest, south and Northwest regions in the country to morally join hands with the southeast and the Northwest regions to creditably and fairly to produce the country’s President and Vice President.
“While the southeast shall be assisted to produce the country’s next credible and popular President, who must be a Christian and non-Muslim; the northeast shall be urged and supported to produce the country’s next Vice President and Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic Council. He or she must be a Muslim. The above cardinal recommendation is to ensure ethnic-, religious fairness and oust the present practice of “All Muslims Affairs” in the country’s polity of the federal segment.
“Apart from the office of the country’s next President and Vice President, other too federal elective and appointive offices shall also be comprehensively balanced along the country’s multi-ethnic, cultural and religious lines or compositions”, the pressure group further posited.
