The Leadership of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has called on every right thinking Nigerian to rise up and defend the hard earned democracy which has remained unbroken for the past 26 years.
The National Chairman of the party, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani while speaking at a press conference to commemorate 2025 Democracy Day at the party headquarters in Abuja said the people must be ready to demand transparency and accountability from their leaders.
According to him, Nigeria’s democracy must be protected “not with passivity, but with passion. Not with despair, but with determination.”
Engr. Yabagi said Nigeria cannot afford to allow state capture as currently be openly display by the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC).
The ADP Chairman warned that trampling on multi-party democracy could lead to a situation whereby those frustrated by the development may be forced to flirt with dangerous alternatives antithetical to democratic rule.
“Never again to the recycling of impunity. Never again to the return of dictatorship by other means.
“Let the lesson of June 12 be clear: when responsibility fails, accountability must rise. If we forget that, we dishonour the heroes who gave everything for the democracy we now take for granted. Let every citizen rise for freedom, for justice, for Nigeria”.
“We don’t want to lose this democracy. We have invested so much into it and that’s why we are saying what we are saying. Because he (President Bola Tinubu) is a democrat, he knows what we are talking about” He stressed.