Campaign for Democracy (CD) has told the Federal Government to burry outright the plan to increase pump price in the country.
It said Nigeria risks mass action that could cripple the the entire democratic structure of the nation if the government eventually tampers with fuel price.
The group’s General Secretary, Pastor Ifeanyi Odili, conveyed the warning in a statement on Wednesday.
It described the All Progressives Congress-led government’s plan to increase pump as inhumane, wicked and insensitive to the plight of Nigerians
According to the statement, “It could not be overemphasized that hunger and mass poverty had brought serious pains and havoc on Nigerians, which we feel that government should show concern about, but rather, it prefers to unleash more pains on the citizenry.To be frank with the government, we will mobilise Nigerians to vehemently oppose any plan by government of Nigeria to go ahead to inflict more pains on Nigerians.
“We want to assert here that it is sad to note that democracy has in Nigeria disappointed majority of Nigerian people. It is also sad that most of us who engaged the military dictators eye ball to eye ball have been disappointed with the handling of democracy. It is regrettable that the current pilots of Nigeria’s affairs are worse than the soldiers we sent away in terms of corruption, insensitivity to our plights and wickedness, nepotism, and brutal display of executive rascality.
“Above all, CD noted that a major threat to our national life is the organisation within the Federal structure called Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) under the leadership of Dr. kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti state. While Nigerian masses are struggling to survive, NGF was busy planning another hardship on Nigerians by proposing to the Federal Government another wicked and killing fuel price.The CD vows to personally hold the governors responsible in their respective states if a dime is added to the price of fuel. We would turn the masses against them in their respective states.
