Group expresses worry over CUPS hostility to Nigeria

A group, Coalition for Truth and Justice (CTJ), has frowned on the hostile online and offline activities of one Dr.
Ahmed Idris of the Citizens United for Peace and Stability (CUPS) against the nation.
The group wondered why CUPS, which went silent once Boko Haram was put in its right place by the Nigerian Army, suddenly found its voice and perfecting an agenda for its own resurgence because of peculiaroccurrences on the political scene.
National Coordinator of the group, Charles Timothy, in a statement yesterday cited the recent comment by Ahmed on the sack of the former Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, following the invasion of the National Assembly by operatives of the service.
The statement read in part: “According to CJT, even as Nigerians are still analyzing matters arising from the sack and its import for Nigeria’s democracy and security, CUPS’ Ahmed Idris saw an inordinate opportunity to settle old scores, re-launch his failed hobby as an aspiring activist.
“Certainly, after clawing at many straws, Dr.
Ahmed Idris came up with the lamest of all reasons as a justification for the Acting President to sack the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen.
Tukur Buratai.
Thatludicrous justification was that the Army was corrupt.
“Tracing where the country came from in just under four years and where the country is today is enough to discredit allegations by the so-called organization led by Ahmed Idris that the Army under Buratai is corrupt.
“We are very much familiar with the assertion that corruption was fighting back when the President Muhammadu Buhari government first intensified the anti-corruption war.
Nigerians never believed that terrorism could ever fight back.
But this is a reality that we are now confronted with in our country through the questionable organization called CUPS.”