The Coalition of Civil Liberty Group in Niger Republic, CODDAE, has requested President Bola Tinubu to sanction his administration for its alleged plans to coerce the judiciary to take away democratically-elected opposition governors of Kano, Plateau and Zamfara States.
The activists have been reacting to contemporary sanctions imposed on their nation by Financial Group of West African States, ECOWAS, which Mr Tinubu heads.
The ECOWAS, in it’s decision final week, had imposed contemporary sanctions on the navy junta in Niger, following Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani’s refusal to accede to its calls for.
The regional bloc had earlier given the navy chief seven days to reinstate President Bazoum Mohamed or danger sanctions, together with potential navy motion.
However CODDAE stated Mr Tinubu ought to be extra involved about “collapsing pillars of democracy in Nigeria” by averting descent to one-party-state earlier than implementing democracy in Niger.
Main a whole lot of Nigeriens on a peaceable public protest at Tribune Public Enviornment in Maradi, the coalition chief, Abdu Dan Neito stated ECOWAS is inflicting extra financial ache and hardship on the residents somewhat than resolving the management disaster.
Mr Neito stated Mr Tinubu is fixated on the Niger junta, however refused to mount equal stress in opposition to different neighboring African international locations the place navy leaders are heading.
The activist additionally known as for acceptable sanctions by United Nations and European Union in opposition to Nigeria over the administration’s alleged repression in opposition to opposition events.
They equally solicited the help of the 19 Northern Nigerian States as “brothers sure by financial, social and cultural ties relationship again to the pre-independence period” to assist in persuading the ECOWAS to carry the sanctions.
The coalition additionally carried out a particular prayer to hunt divine intervention over the disaster.