PDP National Chairman, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), on Tuesday issued a passionate appeal to the international community, warning that Nigeria’s democracy is “under threat” and urging global powers, including the United States, to intervene.
Turaki made the remarks while addressing journalists at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja on Monday, where he accused a serving minister of leading “armed thugs” and said the situation required urgent external attention.
He specifically called on President Donald Trump and other advanced democracies to “come and save Nigeria.”
According to Turaki: “I want to call on President Trump, what is at stake is not just genocide against Nigerian Christians. He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat.
“I’m calling on all other developed nations, all advanced democracies to come and save Nigeria, come and save democracy because I can not understand how a serving minister of the federal republic of Nigeria will be leading thugs, armed thugs.”
He insisted that PDP officials were prepared to defend their mandate despite the threats he described.
“I have said it, we are willing to lay down our lives to protect our office, to protect our democracy, to protect our mandate. So Nigerians you’re watching what is happening, the international community you’re seeing the threat that Nigerian democracy is under, come and save us!! Come and save us!!”
Ademide Adebayo
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