Campaign detour or innovation?
A former Nigerian president may be campaigning in a novel way. Or maybe his opposition is acting in unprecedented ways.Protest In Lagos Over 'Obasanjo's Plans To Install Interim Government'
A pro-democracy group has staged a rally in Lagos State against an alleged plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to install an interim government.
The protest was led by the Coalition for Defence of Democracy in Nigeria (CDDN)
The group claimed it had credible intelligence that Obasanjo's political allies were hell-bent on making the country ungovernable…
Speaking on behalf of the coalition, Rachel Okpara, the Executive Director of CDDN… said: “We are telling the world that there is credible intelligence that a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, is the one that hatched the plan to destroy the country… It was for this reason that Obasanjo released his so called 'Points for Concern and Action', a document that has now been confirmed as intended to incite Nigerians as a precursor to the orgy of violence that his co-planners will unleash on the country.
“We are also asserting that more than the emergence of an interim government that the Federal Government refers to, Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar who is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, and other opposition elements have their sight on an outright coup to overthrow Nigeria’s democracy…
“We appeal to the international community to call Obasanjo, Atiku and other incendiary members of the opposition to order… The international community must make it clear to these elements that any contraption that emerges from truncation of Nigeria’s democracy will not be accepted. They should prevail on Obasanjo and his ilk to desist from the plot to throw Nigeria into chaos.”
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