PDP chair raises alarm over “threats to democracy,” calls for international intervention
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has appealed to the international community to pay urgent attention to what he described as growing threats to Nigeria’s democratic system.
Turaki, who spoke to journalists at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, alleged that a serving minister was involved in leading groups he characterised as “armed thugs.”
He said the situation, in his view, required immediate external scrutiny and support.
In a heightened call for global involvement, the PDP chairman urged world powers including the United States to intervene.
“I want to call on President Trump. What is at stake is not just genocide against Nigerian Christians.
”He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat,” Turaki said.
He also appealed to other established democracies to take notice of the developments he described.
“I’m calling on all other developed nations, all advanced democracies, to come and save Nigeria, come and save democracy, because I cannot understand how a serving minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be leading thugs, armed thugs,” he stated.
Turaki maintained that party officials were prepared to defend what he called their mandate.
“We are willing to lay down our lives to protect our office, to protect our democracy, to protect our mandate. Nigerians, you’re watching what is happening.
”The international community, you’re seeing the threat that Nigerian democracy is undercome and save us!”
There has been no official response from the federal government regarding the allegations as of press time.
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