{"id":130745,"date":"2024-09-11T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubus-draconian-policies-will-throw-nigeria-into-extreme-authoritarian-state-igbo-group"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T22:06:36","slug":"tinubus-draconian-policies-will-throw-nigeria-into-extreme-authoritarian-state-igbo-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubus-draconian-policies-will-throw-nigeria-into-extreme-authoritarian-state-igbo-group","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s draconian policies will throw Nigeria into extreme authoritarian state \u2013 Igbo group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An Igbo think-tank group, the AlaIgbo Development Foundation (ADF), has warned President Bola Tinubu not to plunge Nigeria into another ugly era of extreme authoritarianism and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n

The group condemned in totality the ongoing incessant and serial harassment, arrest, and intimidation mounted against the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, by the security agencies of the federal government of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a statement issued in Enugu on Wednesday and jointly signed by Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie and Mr. Abia Onyike, the group\u2019s National President and National Secretary respectively. The group condemned the intimidation and harassment of civil society leaders.<\/p>\n

The group accused President Bola Tinubu of selling out to international capitalist cartels to the detriment of the economic well-being of Nigerians.<\/p>\n

The statement reads: \u201cIt is unfortunate that President Tinubu has decided to toe this ignoble line whereby he uses the security agencies to deploy force and intimidation to implement his anti-people economic policies, after having sold out to international finance capital and the imperialist metropolis of the North-Atlantic Western powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group called on President Tinubu to retrace his steps by reviewing his draconian economic policies before it gets too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a critical review of Ajaero\u2019s recent encounters with the security agencies, the ADF has come to the inescapable conclusion that the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is hell-bent on plunging Nigeria backwards into the abyss of draconian rule, characterized by illegal arrests and punitive detention of innocent citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ADF views this ill-advised strategy of intimidation and harassment of civil society leaders as an admission by the Tinubu administration that it has failed woefully to defend the nation\u2019s democracy because of the catastrophic failure it has recorded in its economic policies, which have yielded nothing but mass poverty and an unbelievable level of hunger amongst the citizenry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, we dare to aver that the Tinubu administration now constitutes a major affront to Nigeria\u2019s hard-won democracy. It is unfortunate that President Tinubu has decided to toe this ignoble line whereby he uses the security agencies to deploy force and intimidation to implement his anti-people economic policies, after having sold out to international finance capital and the imperialist metropolis of the North-Atlantic Western powers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ADF wishes to call on President Tinubu to retrace his steps by reviewing his draconian economic policies before it gets too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should review his anti-people policies now instead of using crude tactics to crack down on leaders of mass organizations, thereby plunging Nigeria into another ugly era of extreme authoritarianism and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ADF supports the intervention of popular-democratic organizations, the labour movement, and civil society groups in their opposition against Tinubu\u2019s vicious economic policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the fact that the Nigerian labour movement today represents the only strong banner of opposition that can challenge the Tinubu administration after the National Assembly and the Judiciary have been weakened. This explains the desperation of the regime and its determination to decimate the leadership of the labour movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ADF also condemns without any iota of equivocation, the invasion of the offices of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Projects (SERAP) in Abuja by security agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe invasion of the Abuja office of SERAP followed an ultimatum made by the organization to the Tinubu administration to reverse the current petroleum price hike introduced by NNPC, which is an agency of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cADF believes that there is no way Nigeria\u2019s democracy can be consolidated under horrible economic policies where the masses are traumatized by poverty and pestilence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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