A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), said Nigerians should get ready to contend with a class of people he described as “political and economic predators,” who might be waiting to sabotage the nation’s democracy.Falana warned Nigerians to be on the lookout for anti-democracy forces, working to ensure that the rescheduled March 28 and April 11 elections never held in order to pave the way for an interim government or to ensure that even if the polls held the results were rejected leading to widespread violence in the country.
The lawyer gave this warning in a paper titled, “Beyond 2015 general elections: delivering election promises,” which he delivered on Saturday during the Social Weekend of the Life Theological Seminary at the Seminary Campus, Ikorodu, Lagos State.
He said, “There is no indication that the election will hold. If the INEC goes ahead with the conduct of the elections there are fears that the exercise may be sabotaged by anti-democratic forces. If the election holds the results may be rejected leading to a post-election violence which may threaten the corporate existence of the nation.
“In the circumstance, an interim government may be established and be saddled with the task of preparing the country for another political transition. In the alternative, a coup detat may be staged by the top echelon of the armed forces under the pretext of restoring law and order and fighting the menace of insurgency.
“The military wing of the ruling parties succeeded in Mali and Burkina Faso. But having fractionalised the country along ethnic and religious lines the masterminds of the political crisis are not likely to profit from the perfidy. Therefore, the Nigerian people should be prepared for a long drawn out battle for the liberation of the country from political and economic predators.”
Falana also charged Nigerians to brace up to demand from whoever wins the forthcoming election, a redistribution of the nation’s wealth in such a manner that
