{"id":177942,"date":"2025-09-08T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:20:05","slug":"resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Resist tyranny, protect democracy \u2013 CUPP tells Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has urged Nigerians to defend democracy and resist what it described as attempts by the current administration to impose tyrannical rule.<\/p>\n<p>CUPP National Secretary, Peter Ameh, made the appeal in Abuja on Monday while reacting to last week\u2019s attack on the 2023 Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate for Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and supporters of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, allegedly by thugs.<\/p>\n<p>Ameh expressed concern that the incident occurred in the presence of armed policemen who were expected to maintain peace and order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must fiercely resist tyranny with unwavering resolve. As a united people, we must boldly defend our rights and freedoms against oppressive assaults,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Nigerians must not allow fear to dictate their response to such acts of intolerance in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose elected into public offices are supposed to be accountable to the people, but what we have today are leaders who expect those who voted them into power to fear them. They use institutions of government to intimidate and oppress the very citizens they are meant to protect. We must not allow this to continue unchallenged,\u201d Ameh stated.<\/p>\n<p>The CUPP further called for collective action to safeguard Nigeria\u2019s democratic values and ensure that institutions of state serve the people rather than intimidate them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has urged Nigerians to defend democracy and resist what it described as attempts by the current administration to impose tyrannical rule. CUPP National Secretary, Peter Ameh, made the appeal in Abuja on Monday while reacting to last week\u2019s attack on the 2023 Labour Party, LP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[992,254],"class_list":["post-177942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-cupp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Resist tyranny, protect democracy \u2013 CUPP tells Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has urged Nigerians to defend democracy and resist what it described as ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Resist tyranny, protect democracy \u2013 CUPP tells Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has urged Nigerians to defend democracy and resist what it described as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-08T15:57:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-08T17:20:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757339601.80974.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Resist tyranny, protect democracy \u2013 CUPP tells Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-08T15:57:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-08T17:20:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757339601.80974.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CUPP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/resist-tyranny-protect-democracy-cupp-tells-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Resist tyranny, protect democracy \u2013 CUPP tells Nigerians - 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