…AS LEGAL PRACTITIONER ALLEGES GROWING NAZISM IN NIGERIA’S POLITICS
A nongovernmental organization, the Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI) has called on Nigerians and all agencies involved in the 2019 general elections to conduct themselves properly to ensure peaceful and orderly exercise.
This is as a legal practitioner, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has decried what he termed the growing Nazism in politics in Nigeria and among those who are currently holding the reign of power in the country.
Coordinator of MAJI, Okoro Onyekachi Emmanuel, who addressed newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday, called on all stake holders including voters, security agencies and umpires in the elections who may want to digress from the norm during the exercise, to consider the fragile state of the country and desist from actions that could ferment instability in the state.
Okoro called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the Nigeria Police and other relevant agencies to fashion out sanctions that would ensure punishment electoral offenders to serve as deterrent to those who intend to forment trouble or cause electoral malfeasance.
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The Coordinator, who appealed to the patriotic will of the Nigeria Police and other agencies in Rivers State to live up to expectations by arresting offenders, said: ‘’Negative narratives ,stemming from years of political struggles, youth restiveness and militancy have ridiculed the political landscape of Rivers state’’..
He explained that the MAJI’s crusade for non-violent, credible election and good governance which began in earnest in June 2018, has succeeded in spreading its message across the country with particular interest in the youth population.
In a related development, a legal practitioner, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has likened the current state of Nigeria to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany were every aspect of good governance and rule of law was turned upside down.
Edward-Ekpo, who is the Registrar of the International Institute for Humanitarian and Environmental Law, spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital yesterday.
Noting that Hitler started by brandishing anti-corruption mantra to intimidate the Judiciary before descending to crass despotism, legal practitioner listed some similar trend in Nigeria’s current government, to include desecration of the Judiciary through disobedience to court orders, brazen constitutional breach, trampling on human rights and rule of law, among others.
He also noted that court judgments and orders had been highly disparaged since the inception of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, pointing out that Nigerian government has in the current dispensation, destroyed the independence of the Judiciary through blackmail and harassment of judges..
