Security siege as undemocratic practice

Last week’s siege on the residence of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, by the Police and other security forces is a war on democracy and a direct attempt to muzzle opposition which may result into anarchy.
We strongly condemn the siege laid on the residence of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President and other principal officers of the National Assembly on Tuesday morning and we believe all lovers of democracy in the country and beyond would rise against this tyranny and impunity, which is nothing less than a colossal threat to sabotage democratic governance in Nigeria.
The attempt to stop the Senate from holding its plenary over plans by some lawmakers to defect from the APC to the PDP is one of the tyrannical move of the APC-led government to gag opposition in the country and a direct attack on the lawmakers’ right to association.
We wish to remind the President and his party the APC that they came to power as a result of unrestricted freedom they enjoyed while in opposition and healthy democracy which gives room for opposition.
We however wish to warn that Nigeria is greater than President Muhammadu Buhari and his party the APC and they must desist from undemocratic practise that may plunge the nation into turmoil.
We also call on all Nigerians to rise against this unprecedented impunity and tyranny of the APC-led Federal Government capable of destabilising the nation and its hard earned democracy.
We advise the Police and its Inspector General, Ibrahim Idris to desist from being used as a political tool to hound oppositions of the APC, he should rather concentrate more efforts on its duty of protecting Nigerians against several security challenges confronting the nation.
If such efforts used in hounding the Senate President and his Deputy had been invested into combating crime and the rampaging killer herdsmen, Nigeria and the middle belt would have been a safer haven rather than a pool of blood the herdsmen have turned it to due to the incompetence of the security operatives.
We also wish to let the Senate President and others presently in the eye of the storm, know that they are not alone in this battle to sustain and protect the Nigerian democracy, Nigerians are solidly with them at this trying time.
Usman Mohammed, Abuja