{"id":15564,"date":"2013-07-18T17:08:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2013-07-18T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:08:54","slug":"dont-truncate-democracy-abdulsalami-abubakar-warns-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/dont-truncate-democracy-abdulsalami-abubakar-warns-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Truncate Democracy &#8211; Abdulsalami Abubakar Warns Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Thursday appealed to politicians in Rivers to put their house to avoid overheating the polity and truncating the nation\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar made the remark in his residence at an interactive session with members of the Niger chapter of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Minna.<\/p>\n<p>He described the crisis in Rivers as sad and unfortunate, adding: &#8220;I hope that the politicians will try to put a break and reflect on what they are doing in order not to truncate democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In democracy there is limit to what freedom is all about. Your freedom stops when you start to infringe on others freedom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of state stressed the need for politicians to take note of this and check themselves, and pointed out that &#8220;certainly, what is happening in Rivers is sad\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While praying for the peace of the country, he explained that without peace, &#8220;there will be no nation and people will not have the where withal to make a living\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for the past three years, he had been involved in peacemaking efforts in Sudan, following the war between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, having been involved in these peace efforts, I always pray that we must have peace in this country; having seen the devastation of war in other countries. 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