A civil society organisation, OurMumuDonDo Movement, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration to seek re-election in 2019.
The group said the declaration was self-seeking, adding that it has become obvious that there are more sycophants around President Buhari than truth-sayers.
“At a time when the unemployment rate is pegged at 18.8%; when Nigerians are heartbreakingly dying in their thousands in the face of insurgency and unrest; when the free-falling of the economy is making life precariously uncomfortable for the common people, the least the Buhari administration could do is resign honourably.
“However, President Buhari and the bootlickers around him have failed to admit that leadership is not a game of grandstanding but an undertaking for solving problems,” the group said in a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday.
The press statement was jointly signed by Charles Oputa (OurMumuDonDo), Deji Adeyanju (Concerned Nigerians), Ariyo Dare Atoye (Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy) and Bako Abdul Usman (Campaign for Democracy).
The group urged Nigerian youths to get their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) – no matter how difficult, and enthusiastically participate in the democratic process.
“We wish to state emphatically, that in an era when the world is speedily gravitating towards youthful, innovative, and visionary leadership, Nigeria must completely reject the recycling of incompetent leaders whose only mission in governance is to sabotage the nation, plunder our commonwealth, and endlessly ramify the masses,” it added.