Sunday, March 25, 2007
Members of the senior Advocates of Nigeria Stress That April Presidential Elections most Hold
SUMMARY:
Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Prof. Akin Oyebode among others, who are members of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria have stress their worries why the elections should take place even with the problems in the preparation by INEC. The group talked to the press and stated that the judiciary should not let any postponement take place. They argued that if the elections where postponed, it would later lead to great unrest in the country. That the president is trying to use his powers to increase his tenure. They added the past incident during Gen. Babangida’s regime when he postponed the handing over of power to civilian rule.
Important Significance:
A very important issue about this story is that, people are aware of what our leaders are trying to do to maintain power. Just as they stated our former military leader Gen. Ibrahim Babangida used the same tactic to postpone the handing over of power to the civilians back in June 1993. Mans nature is to learn for his mistakes and it seems that the members of the Senior Advocates have realized that history wants to repeat itself and are trying their best to prevent it. These are people who have witnessed the wrongs done to Nigeria by its leaders and are trying to prevent it from happening again.
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article02
Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Prof. Akin Oyebode among others, who are members of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria have stress their worries why the elections should take place even with the problems in the preparation by INEC. The group talked to the press and stated that the judiciary should not let any postponement take place. They argued that if the elections where postponed, it would later lead to great unrest in the country. That the president is trying to use his powers to increase his tenure. They added the past incident during Gen. Babangida’s regime when he postponed the handing over of power to civilian rule.
Important Significance:
A very important issue about this story is that, people are aware of what our leaders are trying to do to maintain power. Just as they stated our former military leader Gen. Ibrahim Babangida used the same tactic to postpone the handing over of power to the civilians back in June 1993. Mans nature is to learn for his mistakes and it seems that the members of the Senior Advocates have realized that history wants to repeat itself and are trying their best to prevent it. These are people who have witnessed the wrongs done to Nigeria by its leaders and are trying to prevent it from happening again.
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article02
# posted by igD @ 6:58 PM 
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