• Dan Nwanyanwu
• ZLP

ZENITH LABOUR PARTY URGES PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SAVE NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY

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The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene urgently to save Nigeria’s democracy. In a statement, the party expressed concerns over the rising anti-democratic tendencies in Rivers, Osun, and Lagos States. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, said the party convened an emergency meeting to address the issue. “We of ZLP sincerely bemoaned the ugly and anti-democratic music booming in Rivers, Osun, and Lagos States. We call on President Tinubu to halt the less than melodic music forthwith, especially when it is allegedly emanating from his political surrogates,” Nwanyanwu said. The party specifically mentioned Ministers Nyesom Wike, Oyetola, and Honourable Obasa of Lagos State House of Assembly as being behind the anti-democratic tendencies. Nwanyanwu cautioned against Osun and Lagos States rehearsing the Wild Wild West and Rivers State rehearsing the dangerous militancy in the oil region as witnessed in the past. The ZLP also raised concerns about the defection of 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly from the political party that sponsored them to another party. Nwanyanwu questioned the legal status of these lawmakers and the effect of their affidavit sworn on oath admitting to defecting. As National Chairman, Chief Nwanyanwu, noted, the intervention of President Tinubu is urgent because democracy is in recession in the region. “Imagine the unintended consequence of the Wild Wild West and the dire economic consequence, if in less than transparent manner, His Excellency Sim Fubara, Governor of Rivers State is impeached and in reaction the Ijaw boys start sabotaging oil flow?” Nwanyanwu asked. Nwanyanwu further questioned the irony of withholding Local Government Funds under President Tinubu’s administration. The ZLP’s call for President Tinubu’s intervention is aimed at preventing the country’s democracy from being undermined.