By Emeka Okafor
The Presidency on Tuesday says it has evidences that some religious and ethnic groups in the country are working with external forces to cause a major havoc in order to bring down the administration of President Muahammadu Buhari.
It said the groups were also conniving with top politicians in the country to convene a conference where a vote of no confidence will be passed on President Buhari and his government.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled ‘Our response to DSS alert, by Presidency.’
The Department of State Security Service (DSS) had recently raised the alarm that some group of persons were working to distablise the country and warned that it would not tolerate such efforts any longer.
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It warned that the administration of President Buhari not allow those planning to throw the country in turmoil to achieve their selfish aims even if it takes the government ruffled feathers of those behind it.
According to it, “The Department of State Services on Sunday alerted on sinister moves by misguided elements to wreak havoc on the government, sovereignty and corporate existence of the country.
“Championed by some disgruntled religious and past political leaders, the intention is to eventually throw the country into a tailspin, which would compel a forceful and undemocratic change of leadership.
“Further unimpeachable evidence shows that these disruptive elements are now recruiting the leadership of some ethnic groups and politicians round the country, with the intention of convening some sort of conference, where a vote of no confidence would be passed on the President, thus throwing the land into further turmoil.
“The caterwauling, in recent times, by these elements, is to prepare the grounds adequately for their ignoble intentions, which are designed to cause further grief for the country.
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“The agent provocateurs hope to achieve through artifice and sleight of hands, what they failed to do through the ballot box in the 2019 elections.
“Nigerians have opted for democratic rule, and the only acceptable way to change a democratically elected government is through elections, which hold at prescribed times in the country. Any other way is patently illegal and even treasonable. Of course, such would attract the necessary consequences.
“These discredited individuals and groups are also in cahoots with external forces to cause maximum damage in their own country. But the Presidency, already vested with mandate and authority by Nigerians till 2023, pledges to keep the country together, even if some unruly feathers would be ruffled in the process.”
