On Wednesday, DSS said it confirmed a plot “by some key players” to install an interim government.
The secret police had alleged that some protests against the outcome of the presidential elections were being sponsored by vested interests
The apex body of Nigerian students, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said that the report by the Department of State Services that it had identified some unnamed key players planning for an interim government in the country is a joke.
On Wednesday, DSS said it confirmed a plot “by some key players” to install an interim government.
The secret police had alleged that some protests against the outcome of the presidential elections were being sponsored by vested interests
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In a statement on Thursday, NANS Vice President, Akinteye Babatunde said any move to truncate Nigeria’s democracy will be rejected.
Akinteye urged candidates and political parties who are not satisfied with the outcome of the February 25 presidential election to seek redress in the court of law instead of inciting violence of any form in any way so that Nigeria can move forward.
The statement read, “Following the recent reports coming from the quarters of the Nigerian DSS that there are frantic efforts and devilish plots by some scrupulous elements in the Nigerian political space to truncate the Nigerian political system by stopping the inauguration of Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect with an illegal installation of an interim government; the Nigerian Students considers this as a SHAM and we say in all factual senses that IT CANNOT WORK.
“I consider this report from the DSS as the joke of the millennium. It is laughable in all ramification that an election was organized by INEC and the result of the presidential election produced a PRESIDENT-ELECT and this winner was announced by the same body - INEC that conducted the election then a group of sycophants would come together to plan to shortchange the fragile peace of the nation for their selfish interests.
“This will be totally unacceptable by all and sundry. The entire NIGERIAN STUDENTS would go against this with every power within and without. Gone is the era of June 12, 1993 that Nigeria was still in a dark age and most Nigerians didn't know their rights and privileges as citizens. Gone is such era of militarization and affront impunity, where someone or a group of few people can just come up with plans and actualize them against the will of the people. Gone is the era where the Nigerian Students and youth would sit and watch some people decide for us to our detriment as citizens and as a nation. We are all wiser now. This will not work.
“As a matter of urgency, I hereby call upon the Nigerian Students, the Nigerian youth and the entire citizens of Nigeria to be ready to resist every form of oppression or manipulation that would send Nigeria backwards in the comity of nations and any installation that would tamper with the peace and tranquility that Nigeria is enjoying in recent times after the heat of the just concluded election.
“I strongly advise that any candidate or any political party who is not satisfied with the outcome of the presidential election should seek redress in the court of law and desist from inciting violence of any form in any way so that Nigeria can move forward.”