The Presidency has fingered religious and past political leaders in a ‘sinister’ move to throwing the country into further turmoil to pave the way for illegal overthrow of the President Muhammadu Buhari government.
Presidential Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed this while reacting to an alert issued by the Department of State Services (DSS), on Sunday, on sinister moves by misguided elements to wreak havoc on the government, sovereignty and corporate existence of the country.
Adesina, noted that the move is being “championed by some disgruntled religious and past political leaders, the intention is to eventually throw the country into a tailspin, which would compel a forceful and undemocratic change of leadership.
The statement reads in part: “Further unimpeachable evidence shows that these disruptive elements are now recruiting the leadership of some ethnic groups and politicians round the country, with the intention of convening some sort of conference, where a vote of no confidence would be passed on the President, thus throwing the land into further turmoil.
“The caterwauling, in recent times, by these elements, is to prepare the grounds adequately for their ignoble intentions, which are designed to cause further grief for the country.
“The agent provocateurs hope to achieve through artifice and sleight of hands, what they failed to do through the ballot box in the 2019 elections.
“Nigerians have opted for democratic rule, and the only accepted way to change a democratically elected government is through elections, which hold at prescribed times in the country. Any other way is patently illegal, and even treasonable. Of course, such would attract the necessary consequences.
“These discredited individuals and groups are also in cahoots with external forces to cause maximum damage in their own country. But the Presidency, already vested with mandate and authority by Nigerians till 2023, pledges to keep the country together, even if some unruly feathers would be ruffled in the process.”
