The Labour Party (LP) has said that Nigerians would not be intimidated by the ‘threat’ of the Department of State Services (DSS).
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the Labour Party, through its Chief Spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko, said it was confident that citizens would not abandon their “legitimate right” to seek judicial redress ‘to reclaim their mandate which was freely given to the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi which was brazenly stolen’.
Recall that the DSS on Wednesday said the plot to set aside the constitution and install an interim government by “misguided” political actors is real.
DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, in a statement, vowed that the secret police will use all arsenals at its disposal to frustrate such plot.
But Tanko wondered why it took the security agency a while to start taking proactive measures to prevent chaos when thugs intimidated voters at the just-concluded general elections in several parts of Nigeria.
“If truth be told, the LP and Nigerians cannot be intimidated. When the DSS was supposed to have issued a caution, it didn’t do it. It failed to do it and that was what gave impetus to those who wanted to derail the democratic system and run away with it.
“Let me give you an example. When the LP members and supporters were being intimidated in Lagos and denied the right to vote, where was the DSS statement? Our members were maimed and also killed during the campaign period, and the DSS issued no warning.
“When people were being ethnically profiled at a particular point, where was the DSS? When ballot boxes and the mandate of the people were stolen, they were nowhere to be found,” he said.
YOU SEE, WE CAN NOT TAKE BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OVER DEMOCRACY OR INTRIUM GOVERNMENT AND ALLOW
LAWLESSNESS, IMPUNITY, WICKEDNESS ETC TO BEDEVIL OUR LAND. NO, IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. PROTECTING DEMCRACY AND NIGERIA SHOULD BE A COLLECTIVE EFFORT OF ALL AND NOT FOR SOME PEOPLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS AND EXPECT THEM TO KEEP QUIT BCOS OF THE FEAR OF INTERIUM GOVERNMENT OR DEMOCRACY. NO!!!!, NOT AT THAT WE MUST FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW TO GET THINGS RIGHT. IF NOT THEN, THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS WRONG WITH NIGERIA THAT HAS NOT BEEN REVEALED AND THAT WILL COME OUT OR HAPPEN ONE DAY. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. NO KINGDOM HAS EVER RULED FOREVER WHETHER ANYBODY LIKES IT OR NOT AND SO WILL BE THE CASE OF NIGERIA. I WISH NIGERIA GOOD LUCK SHA.