Bakare, Falana, others for mass protest in Abuja Wednesday
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Written by Clement Idoko

THE Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has announced plans to storm the meeting of Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) in a mass protest on Wednesday next week, following its failure to invoke Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution to declare the ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua incapacitated at its last sitting.

This is to make good the earlier ultimatum the group handed down to the EXCOF to declare Presi-dent Yar’Adua incapacitated, thereby paving the way for his ouster in order to retrieve the nation from the hands of cabal loyal to him.

The co-founders of the group, Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly and Mr Femi Falana, among others, are to lead the protest to the sitting of the EXCOF on Wednesday.

The SNG also called on Acting President Jonathan to, without delay, dissolve the current cabinet and inaugurate a non-partisan Federal Executive Council (FEC), which would oversee the affairs of the nation.

In a text read to newsmen at a briefing in Abuja, on Thursday, by the general organising secretary of the Good Governance Group, Mallam Salihu Lukman, the group warned that the mass action would be a prelude to other forms of nationwide civil unrests.

The group said the alleged return of ailing President Yar’Adua under the cover of darkness on February 24 and the refusal to allow any person, including the acting president, to have access to him had further demonstrated the contempt the cabal had for the rest of Nigerians.

The SNG condemned the decision of the state governors to fix the conduct of the next general election for January 2011, in order to jettison the Justice Mohammed Uwais-led panel report which stipulated six months before handover.

Those in attendance included Pastor Bakare; Mr Falana; Yinka Odumakin; Willy Ezeagwu; Osita Okechukwu, among others.


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