…Says, the same government that takes coffee with bandits should engage dissent voices
Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central at the Senate between 20115 and 2019 has called for the immediate release of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), stressing that the arrest stands unreservedly condemned.
Sani in his ever bold and no hold bare position said if the same federal government that sits to have coffee with bandits in search of peace, should equally be able to engage dissenting voices.
Sani, who stated these in a statement made available to Forefront News, on Saturday, said that Nigeria’s Democracy has become a block of ice floating on warm waters, stressing that the country is fast leapfrogging into totalitarianism.
Sani pointedly accused the ruling elite of becoming intolerant of truths that once served as the “moral chariots that validated their ascension to power”.
According to him; “Nigeria’s democracy will remain questionable until citizens learn to tolerate things that are legal within the ambit of the law but unpleasant to our ears.
“The Government should defeat Sowore by beaming a bigger light than his and not by switching off his rays.
“It’s ironic for our nation to walk in the sun and be allergic to shadows. The voices of dissent are the heartbeats of democracy. Let not our prisons not be filled with those that speak but with those that kill.”
Sowore was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), in the early hours of Saturday.
His arrest might not be unconnected with his planned #RevolutionNow, a protest “against bad governance” in 20 major cities of the country that is scheduled to commence on Monday, August 5, 2019.
