The National leadership of the Action Democratic Party, ADP has called on Nigerians to rise up and defend the country’s democracy by ensuring accountability at all levels.
The statement was made by the National Chairman of the party Mr. Yabagi Sani, to commemorate the June 12 Democracy’s Day celebration in Nigeria.
Mr. Sani who charged Nigerians added that Nigeria’s democracy must be protected “not with passivity, but with passion. Not with despair, but with determination.”
According to him, Nigerians will resist the recycling of impunity and that “Never again to the return of dictatorship by other means.”
“Let the lesson of June 12 be clear: when responsibility fails, accountability must rise. If we forget that, we dishonour the heroes who gave everything for the democracy we now take for granted, he noted.
The ADP National Chairman added that “every citizen rise—for freedom, for justice, for Nigeria. Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The party chieftain stressed that “We don’t want to lose this democracy. We have invested so much into it and that’s why we are saying what we are saying. Because he (President Bola Tinubu) is a democrat, he knows what we are talking about.”
The ADP Chairman warned that trampling on multi-party democracy could lead to a situation whereby those frustrated by the development may be forced to flirt with dangerous alternatives antithetical to democratic rule.