{"id":116831,"date":"2025-03-21T07:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116831"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:09:28","slug":"nadeco-says-tinubu-wike-akpabio-dark-alliance-threatening-nigerias-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/nadeco-says-tinubu-wike-akpabio-dark-alliance-threatening-nigerias-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"NADECO Says: Tinubu, Wike, Akpabio, dark alliance threatening Nigeria\u2019s democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Daniel Adaji, Abuja<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) USA has issued a scathing condemnation of President Bola Tinubu, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike, and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, accusing them of orchestrating an assault on Nigeria\u2019s democratic institutions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement, signed by the organization\u2019s President\/CEO, Lloyd Ukwu on Thursday, described the trio as a &#8220;dark alliance&#8221; working to undermine the country\u2019s democracy and impose authoritarian rule.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou will never find justice where criminals are making the rules,\u201d Ukwu quoted Bob Marley as saying, emphasising that the recent declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the suspension of its elected officials was a dangerous precedent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 18, Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State citing &#8216;political unrest and insecurity in the state. He also suspended the Governor, Sim Fubara, his deputy, and the members of the State House of Assembly for six months.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a nationwide emergency broadcast on Tuesday, Tinubu said: \u201cI feel greatly disturbed by the political crisis in Rivers. The state has been at a standstill, and the people have been deprived of good governance.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8216;crisis&#8217; in Rivers State dates back to October 2023, following a political fallout between Governor Fubara and his predecessor, Wike.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tensions escalated on October 29, 2023, when a section of the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex was bombed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then, Wike and Fubara have been engaged in a prolonged battle for control over the state&#8217;s political structures.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Judiciary has been influenced by the highest bidders, namely Tinubu and Wike. Similarly, the National Assembly has also fallen into the hands of the highest bidders, which include Tinubu, Wike, and Akpabio,\u201d he declared.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ukwu, this coordinated power grab is systematically dismantling Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe unusual partnership of Bola Tinubu and Nyesom Wike, both skilled Machiavellian politicians, is concerning for Nigeria. One is a transactional person who is out to purchase the entire country, and the other is a well-known political tactician who is willing to betray those who helped to make him,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">*A threat to democratic institutions*<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">NADECO USA warned that the recent political crisis in Rivers State was merely a test case for a broader authoritarian takeover.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt would be unfortunate if the people of Rivers State and Nigerians in general accepted the dismissal of elected officials in Rivers State without a fight,\u201d Ukwu stated, adding that the move was part of a larger strategy to consolidate power.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTinubu has conquered and unified the other two branches of government, the National Assembly and the Judiciary. He is now methodically moving to the States to do the same.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukwu further warned that if this trend continues unchecked, Nigeria\u2019s democracy will cease to exist.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs soon as he succeeds in dismantling the institutions, that is the end of Democracy, and totalitarianism or Civilian Dictatorship is born. This will be one of the biggest ironies in Nigeria\u2019s political history\u2014that the man Bola Tinubu, who claimed to have fought for democracy in Nigeria, is now the same man who murdered and replaced it with autocracy and totalitarianism,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukwu did not hold back in drawing comparisons between Tinubu and infamous autocrats.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are witnessing the evisceration of constitutional democratic governance and wily-nilly descending into totalitarianism, a one-strongman rule\u2026 Tinubu, the King of Nigeria, aka Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany and Donald Trump of the United States,\u201d he asserted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He argued that Tinubu\u2019s actions mirror those of past leaders who subverted democracy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnfortunately, and shockingly\u2014though not surprisingly\u2014Tinubu has unleashed political chaos in Nigeria. All the signs of a political crisis are becoming evident: we see a compliant, rubber-stamp National Assembly, an apologetic and sympathetic judiciary represented by the Supreme Court (which should be referred to as the \u2018Supreme Curse\u2019), and a complete takeover of the security apparatus,\u201d he noted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">*A manufactured crisis in Rivers State*<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">NADECO USA accused the Tinubu-led government of fabricating a crisis to justify authoritarian control over Rivers State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Nigeria&#8217;s 1999 Constitution allows for the declaration of a state of emergency, it specifies certain conditions that must be met for this to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">occur. Section 305(3),) of the Constitution, outlines specific conditions,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">including:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">War or external aggression against Nigeria; imminent danger of invasion or war; a breakdown of public order and safety to such an extent that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ordinary legal measures are insufficient; a clear danger to Nigeria\u2019s existence; occurrence of any disaster or natural calamity affecting a state or a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">part of it and such other public danger that constitutes a threat to the Federation. These conditions appear not to have been met or exist in this<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">situation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBecause they realized that the above conditions [for declaring a state of emergency] did not take place, they manufactured the burning of a pipeline to defraud Nigerians into believing that there was an emergency,\u201d Ukwu alleged.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that \u201cTinubu is imposing a state of emergency using fake and illegal thresholds and pretenses such as the purported pipeline explosion.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukwu urged Nigerians and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to resist Tinubu\u2019s power grab, citing historical examples of successful resistance against dictatorship.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Nigerian Bar Association can make history and save Nigeria from the precipice by doing what the Pakistan Bar Council did,\u201d he said, referring to the 2007 Lawyers\u2019 Movement in Pakistan, which successfully ousted a military dictator.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNBA, DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT!!!\u201d he implored.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">NADECO also highlighted Tinubu\u2019s double standards in the Rivers State crisis.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMr. President has openly stated in his broadcast that his appointee, Nyesom Wike, ignored his attempts to seek a peaceful resolution, yet Wike still remains the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),\u201d Ukwu noted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn contrast, Governor Fubara, an elected official who does not report directly to the President, has been suspended from office. What a shameful situation!!!\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further mocked Tinubu\u2019s leadership, arguing that Nigeria does not need \u201ca secondary school principal\u201d but rather \u201ca strong leader.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">*The road to tyranny*<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">NADECO warned that Nigeria is on the verge of dictatorship.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt this critical moment, Nigeria does not need a dictator or tyrant like Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar,\u201d Ukwu stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added, \u201cIf Tinubu is so incompetent that he cannot manage a small crisis, how can he be expected to handle a significant breakdown of law and order, such as the one that the late President Umaru Musa Yar&#8217;Adua successfully addressed, ultimately leading to the creation of the Amnesty Programme?\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">With democracy hanging by a thread, Ukwu reiterated his urgent appeal to Nigerians: \u201cNigerians, where are you? 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