How Tinubu is suppressing democracy and using judiciary as a weapon – AD founding secretary, Udenta

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President Bola Tinubu has been charged by Prof. Udenta Udenta, the founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), with undermining democratic principles and using the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the courts as weapons against Nigerians.

Udenta made this statement on Thursday’s episode of “Sunrise Daily,” which aired on Channels Television.

In response to Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s suspension, the fellow of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought claimed that the Tinubu administration had distorted democratic institutions.

“The system that should protect democratic governance, you are weaponising them; the judiciary, the apparatus of the state, you are distorting, diluting and transmogrifying them in a way and manner that is shutting down democratic conversations.

“That is what you find as the legacy of the Bola Tinubu president and his political agents. When you abandon the foundational norms of democracy and then you begin to use instruments you acquired in power to dismantle the guardrails that govern the democratic system, then democracy dies.

“It is not by firing a shot that democracy dies or crumbles, it is leveraging the guardrails like the constitution, like what was done in Rivers State, to abort democratic rules,” he said.

Additionally, Udenta charged that Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd), the administrator of Rivers State, had dismantled the democratic levers by suspending all political appointees in the oil-rich state.

A “hybrid regime which is a part of competitive authoritarianism,” the scholar explained, is being used in Rivers State to “manacle the spirit of a nation and abort democratic institutions at all levels,” including political parties, labor unions, media outlets, and civil societies.

He lamented the decline in the standard of living of Nigerians during the past two years, pointing out that the country is experiencing widespread poverty and hunger, with rising food prices displacing the ordinary Nigerian’s income.

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