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Daily Independent
Online.
* Mass Protest
Buhari, Ojukwu, Balarabe tear gassed
By Bisi Abidoye,
Uchenna Awom, Onyekachi Eze and� Rotimi Fadeyi, Only a handful of
persons could beat through heavy police presence to make it to the two
million-man march anticipated Monday in Protest leaders drew
solace from having �succeeded in making a statement to the world about the way The march was like a
cat and mouse game from the beginning as determined NUD and the police
struggled to outwit each other.� First,
the organisers needed to address a press conference at the Agura Hotel at He said their leaders,
lodged at the Nicon Hilton Hotel and the Agura Hotel, were boxed-in by the
police. Rally arrowheads
eventually arrived the press conference at All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA) presidential candidate, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,� APGA National Chairman, Chekwas Okorie, and
National Advance Party (NAP) presidential flag bearer, Tunji Braithwaite, later
joined. At the press briefing
attracted a horde of Nigerian journalists and their foreign counterparts. From the hotel, the
group drove in convoy to Mabushi roundabout through Berger junction,
accompanied by placard carrying supporters. The crowd was scanty apparently out
of fear of the overwhelming police presence. Buhari made to address
the crowed at Mabushi, but was stopped when the police threw canisters of
teargas at the gathering. What Buhari lost in the aborted speech he gained as
the crowed hailed his guts. Apparently irked by
the response, the police cordoned off the highway leading to the popular Wuse
model market where Buhari and Ojukwu were billed to address another crowd
already gathering. Some 500 police officers prevented motorists, the organisers
and� journalists � whom one of the
officers described as �part of the mob� ���
from entering the market. But they were not so
smart as Buhari beat them to their game. Angered, the police, who blocked the
road with their vehicles, hard a running battle chasing away every one going to
the market to listen to the speakers. The leaders then
turned and went to the Nicon Hilton Hotel, where they joined Buhari for a
meeting. Although the event did
not record any stationary audience to be addressed, the organisers expressed
satisfaction that they were able to pull through despite the high handedness of
the government. NUD has demanded the
resignation of all elected political office holders and the institution of a
transitional government of national unity in their place. Balarabe, its
Chairman, declared that civil governance has failed over the last five years
and called for the convocation of a sovereign national conference and a
referendum to decide on a final Constitution for the restructuring of the
country. NUD accused President
Olusegun Obasanjo of �demolishing the independence of the legislature and
thereby sowing the seed of dictatorship� because �he abhors the doctrine of
separation of powers and the checks and balances it guarantees, preferring to
cripple and strangulate the oversight functions of the legislature.� A trait, it regretted,
has now been passed to the state and local governments �where the various
legislatures have become rubber stamps to executive lawlessness.� Buhari�s office,
located at The place was desolate
Monday. A security man nearby said the police had� returned and exploded more canisters of tear
gas apparently to make it impossible for any gathering in case Buhari and
others decide to address the press there. ����������� |
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