3rd April, 2023
PRESS
RELEASE:
MURIC WANTS BIDEN TO COMPARE ANTI-TINUBU
DEMONSTRATORS IN THE US TO TRUMPISTS
A Nigerian human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC), wants President Joe Biden of the United States to compare Nigerians
staging demonstrations in front of the White House against the presidential
election held in Nigeria to cynical, deluded and fanatical Republicans who
still believe that Trump won the election in America.
MURIC’s appeal to the US president was contained in a statement
issued on Monday, 3rd April, 2023 by its Executive Director,
Professor Ishaq Akintola.
He said:
“A few misguided Nigerians have staged demonstrations in front
of the White House in the United States against the outcome of the February 25,
2023 election held in Nigeria.
“We appeal to President Joe Biden to ignore them. The Nigerian
election was free and fair to a large extent. Ours may not be a perfect system
yet, but it is neither brutish nor undemocratic. In fact it was the best
election ever conducted in Nigeria. The ruling party did not win a landslide
but lost sensitive areas including seats in the National Assembly.
“An election has
been held and the winner has been declared by the electoral body. We have a
President-Elect and that is sacrosanct by all democratic rules. Stakeholders
are therefore expected to accept the outcome or approach the courts if not satisfied.
But some unruly folks have chosen to use extrajudicial means to annul the
election. Simply put, they are nothing but rejecters of democratic process,
anachists and confusionists.
“Those demonstrators belong to a group of destroyers who had identified
the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the unbeatable candidate and the only
major impediment on their path to the installation of fascism long ago. They
therefore staged violent demonstrations called #EndSARS one year before the
election in which they targeted the destruction of Lagos and Tinubu’s
properties.
“They want the
result of the election overturned through extrajudicial means. They also called
for military coup. That is most archaic. These are disciples of Donald Trump
and it will be paradoxical if Biden who is fighting insurrectionists in the US
pitches his camp with insurrectionists from Nigeria. As
the greatest democracy and leader of the free world that has won global respect
for its defence of democracy worldwide, Nigerians look forward to America’s
understanding and support of democracy in their country.
“Our message to President Biden is this: Don’t listen to those
who have no faith in democratic process. They are bad losers, rebellious
subjects, enemies of peace, confusionists, anti-establishment elements and rejecters
of democratic norms and values. America must not encourage the Trump heritage
of denial of election results, otherwise it will spread like wild fire particularly
throughout the Third world. It is unhealthy for democracy.
“Those Nigerians demonstrating against the result of the election
held in their country are comparable to cynical, deluded and fanatical
Republicans who still believe that Trump won the election in America.
“By the way, we believe that anarchists have picked the wrong
place to stage their anti-democracy demonstration in front of the White House,
the symbol of democracy worldwide. They should have done it in front of Russia’s
Kremlin or, more appropriately, in Russia’s Dom
pravitelstva Rossiyskoi Federatsii which is Russia’s real equivalent of the White House where they can be
easily drafted by Russia to join the murderous Wagner group in its inhuman, criminal
and despicable onslaught on Ukraine.”
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Nigeria
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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