Gale of impeachments: HURIWA calls for national truce

• Seeks united front on terrorism

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

Worried by the adverse effects that the recent gale of impeachments and attempted impeachments of state governors have generated across the country, with the concomitant overheating of the polity, a democracy-friendly non-governmental organisation-Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Nigerian political class to declare a general period of national truce and quiet.

HURIWA, in a statement, jointly issued yesterday, by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and its National Media Affairs Director, Miss. Zainab Yusuf, also called on national party leaders and strategic national political stakeholders to convoke a self- funded national political peace conference to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the enforcement of the national period of peace, quiet and tranquility, to be moderated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“The group wants all politicians who truly love Nigeria to bury their hatchets and combine forces with the central government to fight reactionary elements seeking to destroy Nigeria from the world’s map through terrorism”.

The Rights group also asked the Presidency to direct the retinue of aides to desist from issuing messages that only create further disunity and polarization of Nigerians along political divides.

HURIWA also called on the INEC, as the only statutory body recognized by the Constitution of the  Federal Republic of Nigeria (of 1999, as amended), to monitor how the registered political parties are administered, to immediately call to order with a threat of sanction, the national spokespersons of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC)  and compel them to stop making seditious statements capable of truncating the current democratic atmosphere in the country.