President Buhari has reacted to the arrest of Omoyele Sowore by the Department for State Security, DSS. The arrest came following a planned protest today demand for good governance.
In a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari, all those planning on involving on the protest today, Monday the 4th of August, are advised to shelve the idea.
According to the president, peaceful protest is different from staging a revolution.
The statement reads in part:
”The organisation championing this planned action is not fronted by any serious public faces. We call on the sponsors and organisers to have the decency to come forward and make their identity known – out of respect to all Nigerians – so that Nigerians can be fully aware in whose name this “revolution” is being proposed and who the beneficiaries may be.
Less than six months ago, Nigeria held simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections. Both contests were won resoundingly by President Muhammadu Buhari and his All-Progressives Congress party. The campaign was observed, and results were confirmed by international election monitoring groups and observers. The result was even contested by the losing presidential candidate and his party in Court.
The ballot box is the only constitutional means of changing government and a president in Nigeria. The days of coups and revolutions are over.
Those making the “revolution’’ call hide behind the veil of social media modernity. But without revealing the identity of their sponsors this shadowy campaign is no better, and no more democratic, than the days of old”.