Some serving members of the House of Representatives, operating under the banner of the Save Democracy Group (SDG), have warned that Nigeria’s democracy is facing a dangerous decline, citing alleged constitutional violations, chronic budget under-implementation, opaque public spending, worsening insecurity and growing economic hardship.
In a statement dated 5 August and signed by the group’s leader, Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP, Rivers), alongside Abubakar Kusada (APC, Katsina) and Mansur Jega (ADC, Kebbi), the lawmakers called on the leadership of the National Assembly to immediately reconvene both chambers from recess to address what they described as urgent constitutional, fiscal and security concerns.
SDG described itself as a non-partisan platform of members of the 10th National Assembly committed to defending democracy, constitutional governance, legislative independence, accountability and the rule of law.
It stressed that its members cut across political parties and regions and insisted that it was neither an opposition platform nor a political pressure group.
“Our membership cuts across political parties, regions and ideological differences. We are neither an opposition platform nor an instrument of any political interest. We are legislators increasingly alarmed by the direction of Nigeria’s democracy,” the statement said.
