The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has described the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration as the worst in Nigeria’s democratic history.
The South East Zone of the CLO spoke yesterday in a statement released as part of activities marking the 2022 World Human Rights Day.
The chairman of the Southeast Zone, Comrade Aloysius Attah who signed the statement, noted that after a careful study of the state of the nation and a review of administrations in the past since Nigeria’s independence from colonial rule in 1960, especially in the civilian dispensation which started on May 29, 1999, the Buhari administration emerged the worst in terms of fulfilling the primary purpose of government which is promoting the welfare and security of its citizens as enshrined in Chapter 2 section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
CLO said the Buhari administration at the verge of completing its second tenure had failed in all indices of development and governance to the extent that the Hobbesian state of nature where life is short, brutish and nasty had become a subtle way to describe the horrible state of affairs and the living condition of the masses in Nigeria presently.
While noting that every indices of development and measurement of good governance under global rankings plummeted and reached its nadir under the Buhari administration, the CLO said the enormous rot in the system presently would require both a conscience and conscious revolution to retrieve the country from the abyss of all things negative.
“In Nigeria under this present administration, the only thing that has improved significantly in the last seven and half years is the health of President Buhari at the expense of the entire Nigerians. Every other thing one can think of has gone worse. Economy is in tatters, corruption has become our second name, education sector is bleeding, infrastructure and security – choking and worsening while the country is soaked in the blood of its defenceless citizens”
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It described 2023 general elections as a very significant and defining moment for Nigeria whether to redeem and rescue its battered democracy and arrested growth or lose it forever.
“It is a “battle” between light and darkness. A battle between going forward or receding and reclining into a final doom. Those who have prospered under the old order and benefitted from an abnormally bad situation wants the business to continue as usual while those who are totally fed up with the system and are desirous of rescuing a dying nation with its suffering masses are gearing up for a revival,” it said.
The organisation called on all reasonable Nigerians to take up the ballot revolution of 2023 election seriously and ensure that those who placed the country on life support are uprooted from the system and replaced with people of ideas and pedigree passionate about a new Nigeria.
It also knocked governors of the five South East states for what it described as their “failure to provide leadership to the people” and their inability to foster proper cooperation among states towards addressing insecurity and activities of the marauding killer herdsmen.
