A pro-Buhari group, Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG), has expressed worry over the repeated allusion to coup or military intervention in governance by some Senators on the floor of the Senate, saying such call for serious concern.
The group therefore urged Nigerians to henceforth monitor the utterances of some Senators, adding that such calls were capable of truncating “our hard-earned democracy.”
A statement signed in Abuja Wednesday, by the BMSG coordinator Austin Braimoh and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, said incendiary remarks by Senators Dino Melaye and Ben Murray-Bruce during deliberations on killings in Nasarawa State was “most reprehensible.”
The statement wondered why Senators will take advantage of Senator Ike Ekweremadu presiding to “instigate military intervention in our democracy.
“With this latest call for a military coup, coming barely few weeks after the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu made a similar call, we are forced to conclude that this is a script playing out and Nigerians are hereby urged to henceforth monitor the utterances of some PDP senators as they are capable of truncating our hard-earned democracy.”
Recall that Senator Ben Murray-Bruce at Tuesday’s plenary had said “let nobody be surprised, if the same agreement (sic) presented in 1983 for military to take over is presented, and if they do a lot of this people would be unemployed, and would need to find a source of income.”
BMSG, however, said it considers these Senators’ remarks as “inciting, despicable, reprehensible and a calculated attempt to sabotage the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which is focused on providing security across the country; reviving the economy and eradicating corruption in our public institutions.
“We caution that under no circumstance should the Senate avail people with hidden agenda the use of its hallowed chamber to deride the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari or undermine our democracy as this will not augur well for the country.
‘’We see their opportunistic utterances as corruption fighting back since some of the Senators have an axe to grind based on the Buhari administration’s determination to curb corruption.”
