The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has passed a vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a total failure.
This declaration was part of the Communique released at the end of the meeting of its National Executive Council held on Saturday, 13th February 2021 in Lagos.
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The Communique signed by DR. Osagie Obayuwana, National President, CDHR read in part; ‘CDHR agrees with the National Assembly that no other evidence is required in proof that the Nigerian State under President Muhammadu Buhari has not only failed woefully but has shown through a combination of lackluster performance characterized by incompetence and indifference, that the State under Buhari leadership cannot meet the fundamental purpose for which it was established- to uphold the security and welfare of the Nigerian people,”
The CDHR passed the vote of no confidence against the backdrop of large-scale insecurity in the country and the continued impoverishment of Nigerians through anti-people policies such as the recent increase in the price of fuel, the hike in electricity charges, the resumption of protests, the pervasive insecurity nationwide and a threat to national cohesion and unity.
‘NEC observed that even without a formal announcement, it has noticed that the pump price of petrol has been increased to between N168 and N170 per liter. The CDHR condemns in the strongest terms this insensitive step in view of the spiral nature of the adverse consequences that will follow it, particularly on the standard of living of the average family in Nigeria.
“It is doubly tragic that this increase comes simultaneously with another hike in the tariff payable for electricity. Within the past few months, NEC observed that the charges payable for electricity for the CDHR National Secretariat has more than doubled, from an average of N22,000 per month to N49,000′.
The CDHR said it found no justification for those increases other than the quest for profit maximization by those who control the national economy and the lives of Nigerians, adding that the logic of passing the so-called increase in the cost of production to consumers is unacceptable, as it is a recipe for perpetual pauperization of the Nigerian people.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK