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We Reject One-Party Dictatorship – Middle Belt Groups Fault Court Ruling Sacking National Assembly Members From Plateau State

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November 16, 2023

The coalition, while speaking against the recent Court of Appeal judgment which removed four National Assembly members in Plateau State from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), noted that such actions are a “dangerous script playing out which has implications for the rest of the country.”

The Coalition of Middle Belt Groups has stated that it kicked against court judgements which negated the will of the people and tended to make Nigeria become a one-party dictatorship.

The coalition, while speaking against the recent Court of Appeal judgment which removed four National Assembly members in Plateau State from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), noted that such actions are a “dangerous script playing out which has implications for the rest of the country.”

Speaking for the coalition, the convener, Dr Ben Omale, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja said it was expedient to draw the attention of Nigerians to the accelerating efforts by anti-democratic forces to turn Nigeria into a one-party dictatorship.

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Omale said, “Such commendations of the robbery carried out against the Plateau PDP are emanating from the beneficiaries of the crime, viz the All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly the Plateau State chapter.

"Other non-APC members that have commended the rape of democracy are people who do not have the benefit of the full details of the fundamentals at play at the backend. Our belief is that people in this category and other Nigerians should be made aware of the dangerous script playing out in Plateau State, which has implications for the rest of the country.

“We call this script dangerous because, from our findings, Plateau State is merely being used as a pilot by the closet fascists who are well on their way to making Nigeria into a one-party dictatorship.”

"They have compromised the judiciary to the point that some of the colluding judges in the Court of Appeal and other parts of the judiciary are almost card-carrying members of the APC. This compromised status turned out to be defining in the ruling that they gave to steal the PDP’s National Assembly seats.

"We had ignored earlier intelligence that the judiciary would be used to hijack the mandate expressed by the people of the Middle Belt in choosing their national representatives, but we now see things differently now that the judges have shown that they are aligned with the APC. This development has now convinced us that the other aspects of the plot for APC to take over Plateau State by any means are no longer assumptions but realities that must be urgently confronted in the interest of democracy, peace, and security across Nigeria.”