A human
right crusader, Aisha Yesufu, has told President Muhammadu Buhari and security
operatives in Nigeria to get ready to arrest more people, pointing out that
Nigerians will not stop demanding for their rights.
She said
Buhari had not shown empathy in his action and words that he has the capacity
to be a leader of a democratic nation like Nigeria.
She added
that Nigerians are ready and willing to go to jail rather than watch the
country return to dark days reminiscent of the military era.
“So, the
Nigeria government should get ready to arrest more people, if that’s what they
are going to do. We will not keep quiet.
“We will keep talking. We will keep demanding
our rights.
“We are
citizens in this country; we are not slaves. No Nigerian is more Nigerian than
any Nigerian. The President occupied the highest political office in the land
but we the citizens occupied the highest office in the land and we would speak
for him to hear,” Yesufu stated.
Yesufu, who
spoke exclusively with SaharaReporters in Abuja added, “This democracy that we
have today a lot of people died for it. A lot of people fought for it and it
seems as if he wants to take us back to the era of military and we will not
allow that to happen. We will continue to stand against him and we will not
allow our voices to be stifled.
“The
revolution that Sowore called is imminent in Nigeria. It is either we go for a
bloodless revolution or we go for a bloody revolution. Things are not working.
The citizens are tired. There is no governance in the country,” the activist
asserted.
She pointed
out that the country was tottering on the edge of anarchy and there was a need
for the citizens to come together and demand a better Nigeria, wondering why
the government has not arrested terrorists and herdsmen whose actions threaten
the peaceful co-existence of the country.
She
described the arrest of Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and
presidential candidate in the February 2019 election, as unconstitutional and
undemocratic.
“Revolution
has started in the country with the killing of a policeman by an angry mob who
went to arrest ‘Yahoo boys’ in Lagos and mistakenly shot a woman in her shop.
We saw the gridlock that happened along Abuja-Kaduna road a few days ago when a
policeman had asked a driver to give him money.
“The man did
not have enough (money) and this policeman took out a gun and shot the man in
the head and he died. The drivers occupied the whole area for over 20 hours.
That is a revolution happening. It is already happening,” she said.
The
co-convener of # BringBackOurGirls asserted that the inability of the
government to contain incessant killings and kidnappings acrossthe country was
unfortunate.
“When one is
affected all of us are affected; if we keep quiet and we do nothing now that
Sowore has been arrested, what do you think is going to happen?
“One by one
every one of us is going to be taken away and locked up, and we are going back
to those dark days in Nigeria when people were afraid to speak inside their own
houses and we will never allow that to happen.
“We will
keep this democracy, we will ensure that we protect it and we will ensure that
our children get a nation where they can hold their heads high up,” she told
SaharaReporters.
Speaking
further, Yesufu added, “I have consistently said if educated Nigerians do not
go for a bloodless revolution where it is done with words and intellect. Where
we ensure that systems are put in place that should work for the nation,
whether we like it or not we might be sent one day into a bloody revolution
where the poor get tired and their back get to the wall and come after every
one of us “
She urged
Nigerians within and outside the country to come out and demand the release of
Sowore on Wednesday (tomorrow) 14 August.
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