AYCF Condemns Siege On National Assembly

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has joined in the condemnation of the siege on Tuesday by men of the security service.

In a release by Alhaji Yerima Shettima, National President, AYCF, made available to P.M.EXPRESS, the group said, “Our close look at the unfolding siege on the National Assembly in a desperate bid to launch a coup against a democratically elected Senate President Bukola Saraki was a smear on decorum, anti-thetical to democracy and its institutions. This clear case of treasonable felony against our collective conscience is condemnable in the strongest of words. It has once again ridiculed our image as a democratic and independent nation”.

“We suspect enemies of democracy behind the desperate bid to use force in grabbing power out of the hand of the Senate President.

In view of the above and a lot more, our position now is:-

1. We commend the Acting President Yomi Osinbajo’s prompt response to the brigandage of the Lawal Daura’s gestapo style of truncating democracy.
2. We call for stiff sanctions by way of arrests of other collaborators in this national ridicule, notably Senator Abu Ibrahim, Senator Adamu Abdullahi, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Abba Kyari, in order to send the right signals that the long arm of law is set to catch up with the lawbreakers in our midst.
3. We call for the immediate setting up of a special panel of inquest to deal with this brazen impunity. Meanwhile, we still look forward to series of arrests of other principal suspects in this uncivilized militarization and impunity against the Senate President and the institution of the National Assembly, whether within or outside the corridors of power.
4. We make bold to say that any action short of arresting the political desperados behind this uncivilized, disgraceful incident at the National Assembly and against the Number Three most-respected office in the land, should be resisted by our compatriots

“We urge the Acting President to stick to his guns regarding efforts to ensure compliance with constitutional provisions and dealing ruthlessly with abuse of office by any government official, no matter how highly-placed” the AYCF said.