‎Call el-Rufai to Order, HURIWA Warns Buhari, APC

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‎Call el-Rufai to Order, HURIWA Warns Buhari, APC


The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has alleged that the Kadua state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai is anti-democratic with his policies, therefore called on the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  to call the governor to order  to maintain the current atmosphere of peace and tranquility in state. 

The group also urged  members of the state House of Assembly to reject anti-labour and anti-religious legislation before them.

HURIWA in a statement  identified the governor has a major threat to democratic norms, peace and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria.

National coordinator of the group, Mr. Emmanuel Onwubiko, urged the governor to fundamentally amend his leadership style, so as to avoid precipitation of civil unrest in the state. 

"HURIWA believes that any social cum religious warfare that is ignited in Kaduna would spread like wild fire across Nigeria.

 "We feel strongly obliged to name the Kaduna State governor as the single most notorious threat against the survival of Nigeria's Democracy going by the high rate at which his administration is known to have introduced or implemented policies that are grossly anti-people and anti-religious even when the Nigerian Constitution in Section 14 (2) (a) states clearly that 'Sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all Powers and authority," it stated.

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