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Sacked DSS DG: SDP lauds Osinbajo’s courage to save Nigeria Democracy


……Wants him to call Kogi State Assembly to order
By Josephine Ella-Ejeh
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has lauded the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s courage to save Nigeria democracy by relieving the Director-General of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) Lawal Daura of his job.
While commending Osinbajo for the prompt disciplinary action taken on the Director General of the DSS, The SDP also called on the acting president to order an immediate reversal of the “anti-democratic” decision of the State House of Assembly which on Tuesday declared the seat of an SDP legislator in the State Assembly vacant.
The Kogi State House of Assembly had declared the seat of the immediate past Speaker, Umar Ahmed Imam vacant over his recent defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress to Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The decision was taken during the state assembly’s seating presided over by the Speaker, Prince Matthew Kolawole.

Imam who earlier alleged he was being maginalised as he was shut out of APC and never recognized as a party member and a leader at his own ward, had  on July 22, 2018 announced his defection in Lokoja.
The Kogi State Assembly it would seem, took the beef with him to another dimension on Tuesday, declaring his seat vacant.
A statement issued by the SDP National Publicity Secretary, Alfa Mohammed reads in part: “The speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, playing the script written for him by the Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello who himself has lost respect and goodwill from the people of Kogi state declared the seat of an SDP legislator in the state house of Assembly vacant.
“We call on you to save our democracy and order the immediate reversion of the anti-democratic decision of the Kogi state house of Assembly before the state is engulfed by violent protest from the people of the state who are already fed up with the non performing APC government.”
The party  said the action of the Speaker of the Kogi State Assembly in declaring Imam’s seat vacant is another desperate move by the Buhari APC –Led Government to stop the escalating defection of its members to SDP.
“The Social Democratic Party SDP wish to draw the attention of Nigerians and the Diplomatic circle to another of the series of undemocratic conducts being visited on Nigerians by the ruling APC government of president Muhammadu Buhari in its desperate move to stop the escalating defection of its elected members to the social democratic party and others due to crisis and mass rejection which has engulfed the party in the recent time,” the statement said.
This was as it urged  the people of Kogi state to stand up for democracy and vote Imam in the forthcoming Saturday Senatorial election “whose obvious victory is behind his humiliation.”
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