Egypt: Nigeria’s National Conscience Party Asks Mubarak To Resign

Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
By Femi Falana

The National Chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Femi Falana has asked the embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign and accept the clear statement of rejection of his unpopular and corrupt government by millions of Egyptians who have demonstrated for days against demanding their right to good governance, and responsive government.

Several demonstrators have been killed in four days of protests in Cairo, Suez, Alexandria and other Egyptian cities. Police have fired rubber bullets and tear-gas, used water cannon and baton charges, and even thrown rocks at protesters. Over 1,200 have been arrested over the past four days, many of them still in detention, and many others beaten. The government has warned that further demonstrations will not be tolerated.

In a statement dated 30 January 2011, Falana said, “We welcome the unfolding revolution and the demonstration of peoples’ power against bad governance, corruption, poverty, and oppression in Egypt.  We strongly condemn the violence and repression by the Mubarak led government against the demonstrators who are simply exercising their internationally recognized human right to assembly and peaceful demonstration. Violence against Egyptians should stop. President Mubarak must resign now, and listen to the voices of millions of Egyptians who are demanding a change for a better future.”

“Using excessive force to crackdown on peaceful protests and torturing protesters are grave breaches of international human rights law, and the African Union must publicly condemn the practice. The AU must side with the Egyptian people if it is to show that it is completely different from the defunct Organization of African Unity (OAU), whose sole purpose was to defend African dictators and not the African peoples.” 

“The mass protest in Egypt to demand good governance, accountability and transparency is coming just after a successful revolt against authoritarian leaders in Tunisia. This renewed demonstration of peoples’ power is a stack reminder to African dictators that unless they embrace legal and political reforms, and entrench human rights and the rule of law, they will one day be held to account by their own people. This is the history of Africa but unfortunately many African ‘leaders’ turned dictators have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.”
 
“The examples of Tunisia and Egypt also show that African dictators will now find it harder to justify authoritarian rule and dictatorships, and difficult to maintain power. These people revolutions will embolden African citizens to speak up and stand for their human rights, including their right to participate in their own government, and their socio-economic rights.”

“In the case of Nigeria, we reject people of violence and those who have held back the progress of our country for decades. We urge Nigerians to take full advantage of the forthcoming elections to reject and vote out the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government. We call on the youths to get organized and participate fully in the elections to elect leaders who will reverse the retrogression, poverty, corruption, underdevelopment and misery that have characterised many years of the PDP government. Nigeria is blessed with enormous natural resources, and this government has earned huge revenue from the resources of our people but has nothing to show in terms of development, and provision of basic necessities of life for millions of Nigerians who continue to face absolute poverty.”

SIGNED

FEMI FALANA
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY (NCP)

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Well, Nigeria or Nigerians have NO right to advise others!!

Illegitimate fake state like Nigeria... advising REAL STATES! Ask how many hundreds would have been murdered by Nigerian insane military, if Nigerians should attempt to demonstrate.
It is not only an insult to those legitimate nations, but a slap on their INDEPENDENCE, for a GENOCIDE craze 'state' like Nigeria to always try to shine with internal affairs of others!!
'Nigerians' MUST first be honest to themselves and let the hundreds of nations it is holding against their will to go!! There is no country called Nigeria it is a fake British NONSENSE where nothing makes sense, but you see many fools raising their voice whenever they hear there is a problem in other countries. Yet the genocide in their Sharia/Taliban North is beyond them.
When their so called untamed monsters in uniform want to kill the people (Same people they were supposed to protect, and who paid for the guns)they kill them as though they are flies!! Where else on a civilized world would a military kill their own people without qualm? Well, in Nigeria life means NOTHING! It is a No Mans LAND!
The world should not allow Nigeria with their blood thirsty vampires. They animal ruling them are nothing but monsters, that ought not to be giving any chance to export their evil to other countries. the world rather should hasten up to let the nations in hostage to leave the British bondage, now that the British has left.
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Nigerians should focus on their quantum problems and hide the advice of many reasonable people, to find a peaceful means of breaking up... The hypocrisy of being a country is no longer viable, and the hope of keeping the many nations in the dead 'Geographical expression is long over! The wind of change is blowing, it will soon reach Nigeria is a brutal way that the world could not contain. So I advise that the right thing be done urgently, let the peaceful break up, just like in Sudan begin in Nigeria!!

Very evocative comments

Very evocative comments displayed here unfortunately displaying our narrow minded, bigoted views and our ignorance and lack of political maturity to bring about REAL. I cringe at the insults thrown about on political forums including SH just based on the name and of a
contributor. For Nigeria to have any chance of real change in 2011. There needs to be unamity of purpose which simply doesn't exist only small minded parochial views.

WHO DO WE VOTE FOR?

WE WELCOME THE CONCERN OF FEMI FALANA ON THESE AFRICAN SIT-TIGHT LEADERS WHO HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE DICTATORS. BUT I THINK IT MAY NOT BE RIGHT FOR FALANA TO ADVOCATE THAT WE VOTE PDP OUT. WE CAN ONLY VOTE OUT BAD EGGS OF PDP. JONATHAN IS OKAY FOR US AS PRESIDENT, FASHOLA AS GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE. LET US BE A LITTLE BIT OBJECTIVE.

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, why not go to Jos3?

Am posting this thing for the third time. Even the German foreign minister has expressed his concerns about the islamists taking over in Egypt.

"If we don’t reach out to our brothers and sisters in Egypt and Tunisia ...." Sabella Ogbobode Abidde. Those North Africans are not our brothers and sisters. All they think about is Islam and domination of Africans by their Arab world. You can see their hands in Mauritania and Sudan. I mentioned earlier before this comment (produced here)by the British officials that the fear is that Egypt might fall into the hands of the Islamic Brotherhood. In Tunisia, the Ayatollah Kumeini of that tolerant country has returned. It turned out that Saharareporters didn't publish what I wrote. Well, here's what the British are saying:
"Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned Sunday about the danger that Egypt -- should Mubarak exit, after 30 years in power -- could fall into the hands of extremists or a more authoritarian government."
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/30/egypt.protests.western.rea...

It's clear that a lot of people hardly know nigeria. No revolution is ever going to happen in nigeria, due to the divisions in the country.

Egypt can go to places

Ask our people who passed through Egypt when they travel abroad. They are treated like trash. Egypt can go to blazes and burn. They are bastards!

@Igbokwe

Thank you so much! I cant stop laughing, even though there a part of me that really wants to do those things. You must be a creative/expressive to think those thoughts.Koboko & pako Indeed!!!

PDP OUT!!!

PDP OUT OUT!!!

Nigerians don't have the nerves!

It can't happen in Nigeria. Nigeria is so fragile and fractious and divided to have that kind of revolution. It's very easy to do divide and rule to stall revolution in Nigeria. Very simple! Play the ethnic card - the Northern aboki will think twice. The Igbos; within their own caucaus can't even speak with one voice. So, friends, forget it. It will not happen.

Lets come out and do our own.

Oga Falana, Egypt dey do their own on the field, you dey your office dey yarn plenty.
I don't think the opression in both Tunisia and Egypt combined is enough to compare with that of Nigeria.Abi na for mouth our giant of Africa dey? when our boys are showing they have mind more than us?
Abeg roll out make we do our own for Naija one hand O, as the trend is ripe now.
It started as a drop in Tunisia, the ripple effect has reached Egypt, It's time for Nigeria to do her own.
We need to come out and jungle justice all politicians in our respective neighbourhoods first before marching to the big players.

I would so much like to kick Waziri in her big butt till theres a mark that say's EFCC there, flog someone like Babangida belt till theres a mark on him that spells June 12, use pako to plank someone like Abacha's son, give lucky Igbinedion one upper cut, Shake Govs Fashola and Peter Obi's hands, deck both Ibori and Ohakim, wipe the Uba brothers koboko, piss on Abachas grave, wipe Atiku koboko on his head, jab Tinubu's big belle, Give Gbenga Daniel shockee, send ringing tone to Iyabo Obj's ear, give David Mark Igbaya, pour hot Omi ewa on Bankole, spit on Uduagan and use blow to cover his left eye, send ringing tone to both ears of Maurice Iwu and more.

Do all these with picture memorabilia of these actions and I'm ready to meet God and either use those pictures as my pass into heaven or use them to keep me smiling in my grave.

Any which ways , Life well spent.

Yeye leaders.

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Someone once wrote many articles. One article advised a notorious dictator on how to plant drugs, rig elections, and kill Nigerians.

There is a saying: Whatever you did or said in the past will sooner or later find and hunt you in the future.

Those who enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on others will one day take their turn in receiving pain and suffering. This is Karma.

Our time will come

l just hope our own revolution would because l don't believe in our cosmetic arrangement of change we have at the moment.

Mubarak and his likes are men

Mubarak and his likes are men of yesterday.

The fact that Egyptians are calling for his end, shows a shift in thinking. Africa will be free.

Felanni was doing fine until

Felanni was doing fine until he started campaigning against PDP. I am not a PDP party member.

It should have being that we Nigerians must come out in great number and vote according to our individual choices but because you are a politician, hence could not speak from this point.

The best person should be voted in and PDP still have people with integrity and if it has come to a time when those people are getting larger in number, then, I must deal in some chances.

Is Jonathan not in the PDP? So by implication you are saying that I should not vote for him.

Please Mr. Felana, do not turn the hand of time, I am tired of starting afresh, I must move on, I must make out the best of what I have.

Dont be in a hurry, time is already near.

Enemuo Wales

I applaud Mr. Femi Falana ... National Conscience Party

I applaud the position of Mr. Femi Falana and that of the National Conscience Party. In an increasingly globalizing world, you’d be hard-pressed to separate domestic issues from global issues. What’s more, only those with provincial mentality and/or parochial and limited worldview would think/believe that what happened in Tunisia, or what’s going on in Egypt, is none of our business in Nigeria.

As Africans, we are by nature Pan-Africanists. Or at least most of us are. Our common history, common heritage and shared experiences bind us. Egypt may be thousands of miles away from Nigeria; still, we have similar political, social and economic fate. And as humans, we must denounce abuses, oppression and man’s inhumanity to man wherever and whenever they occur.

If we don’t reach out to our brothers and sisters in Egypt and Tunisia and elsewhere, who will come to our aid if and when our own government begins to abridge our human rights, empty our treasury, jail us without just cause and/or foster authoritarianism. We must stand by and identify with the oppressed so others may stand and identify with us if and when our own government becomes wayward and injurious.

We, at home and abroad, must speak up and speak against injustice in Egypt, Tunisia, Jos, Odi, Kano, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Western Sahara and in all places where ugly raises its head. Silence has a cost – a cost, global citizens like me, are not willing to bear.
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Sabidde@yahoo.com

Deri, STFU

dear Deri SHUT THE FUCK up. What has Jonathan done for the avg Nigerian. It's dumb ass ppl like u that must be stamped out from our nation when the revolution happens. We don't care what tribe our president comes from as long as he's honest, hardworking and pro Nigeria not a fucking Cabal. Deri is a dirty nincompop, always toying with tribal sentiments. We're sick of Dirty Deri and Badluck Jonathan

I applaud Femi Falana and the National Conscience Party

I applaud the position of Mr. Femi Falana and that of the National Conscience Party. In an increasingly globalizing world, you’d be hard-pressed to separate domestic issues from global issues. What’s more, only those with provincial mentality and/or parochial and limited worldview would think/believe that what happened in Tunisia, or what’s going on in Egypt, is none of our business in Nigeria.

As Africans, we are by nature Pan-Africanists. Or at least most of us are. Our common history, common heritage and shared experiences bind us. Egypt may be thousands of miles away from Nigeria; still, we have similar political, social and economic fate. And as humans, we must denounce abuses, oppression and man’s inhumanity to man wherever and whenever they occur.

If we don’t reach out to our brothers and sisters in Egypt and Tunisia and elsewhere, who will come to our aid if and when our own government begins to abridge our human rights, empty our treasury, jail us without just cause and/or foster authoritarianism. We must stand by and identify with the oppressed so others may stand and identify with us if and when our own government becomes wayward and injurious.

We, at home and abroad, must speak up and speak against injustice in Egypt, Tunisia, Jos, Odi, Kano, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Western Sahara and in all places where ugly raises its head. Silence has a cost – a cost, global citizens like me, are not willing to bear.
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Montgomery, Alabama
Sabidde@yahoo.com

From Tunisia to Cairo,where Next?

From Tunisia to Cairo,where Next? Dont say Nigeria,plsssssssssssssssss.

Nigerians must emulate Egyptians

The positive and poupular uprising in Egypt has exposed the soft underbelly of a brutal dictatorship. Nigerians must learn to take the bull by the horns and insist on good governance and transperancy.

a counter revolution against the revolt of the masses in Naija

I laugh and laugh I will for the days, weeks and months to come. Mubarak must be hating himself by now. Regretting not to have stood his ground and pursued the path of truth. He allowed himself to used and like an old rag, he has been finally discarded by the very people who kept him in power. He deceived and twisted the Palestinains. And so long as he like Mobutu, among other African leaders, did what they were asked to do, it was fine with the animals who kept them in power all these years. In ours, we are asking Nigerians to give Jonathan the Mubarak or the Tunisian treatment. Obama promised to dump the dictators in the Arab world and Afrika in the dust bin of history where they all belong. Thankfuly, he had delivered on his promise. In Nigeria, we have Jos, Borno, Bauchi and the Niger Delta to contend with. Over there in Egypt and Tunisia, there was no North and South of Atiku to struggle with. They had no consensus candidate to throw their weight behind. Its was just Egypt and Egyptians. In Tunisia, the protest was just by Tunisians regardless of region. It was not about the redistribution of the oil blocks allocated to the kingmakers. The revolution is not about an 8 month old regime. Mubarak has been in power like his Fulani counterparts in Nigeria for over 30yrs. In Tunisia it was 24yrs old structure that was dismantled through the unflinching power of the people.
Sadly for us again in Nigeria, our forth-coming revolution is about the enthronement of the same old elites who stole our freedom. Yes that is what our revolution is about. Its about Buhari, IBB, Atiku and Ribadu. Not about the suffering masses. No way just the same old faces that we saw when Shagari was kicked out by Buhari. Buhari is back with Atiku riding on the saddle of ciroma and Yakassi. The same Atiku who was there for 8yrs. And the Buhari who for over a year as the head of state, was busy chasing suit cases at MMA. If he is not seen changing the national currencies, he is busy crating humans at the cargo terminal inside Heathrow airport. Ribadu who for over 18yrs was hired to pursue percieved state enemies is to head the revolution. That is what they call the African revolution in Nigeria. A revolution by the revolutionaries to torment those who are revolting against the candidates they want to impose on them. That is a counter-revolution against the revolt of the masses.

Africa Leaders

Typical of Africa Leaders.

Let's look at our shokoto!

Mazi Falana,

I salute, kudos to you for standing for what is right, what with all that temptation to "cave-in" every which way you look.

I just pray that somehow, someway we Nigerians will set aside our religious and ethnic differences and, for once, be prepared to give our lives, without fear, for our freedom... for our security...for all the unarmed Students(yes, Students were shot my time in UniJos in the late 80s too), Civilians, Journalists and Activists that have given theirs so we can enjoy ours; may they rest in peace, amen.

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, why not go to Jos?

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde, why not go to Jos and walk around the streets, or even your town in Bayelsa State? Not talk of demonstrating in Abuja. In Tunisia, somebody set himself ablaze. Do that and we will applaud you.

Indeed...time for Mubarak to go into exile

There are no easy solutions to the ongoing crisis in Egypt. Even so, it would be good for Egypt if Mubarak were to go into exile. And go, he must! Sadly, as with tyrants the world over, he is not likely to leave on his own volition. At this point therefore, the US, the EU and other influential countries should unequivocally tell him to leave. If he does not, then…he deserves whatever extralegal actions that are visited on him. Mubarak is abut 80 years old and has been in power for three decades. What else does he want, what more can he offer the people and the state? Certainly not economic progress or political reforms that will lead to the overall wellbeing of the people.

For those of us who are from Sub-Saharan Africa, we must learn from our brethrens in the North and elsewhere around the world: we must confront tyrannical leaders in our own backyard, call for and demand change and be willing to sacrifice our lives and our conveniences for our country. It’s so unfortunate that for most of us, our loyalty is to our ethnic group/region – as opposed to our country.
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Montgomery, Alabama

The wind of change is blowing and swirling ............

The wind of change is blowing and swirling across North Africa.The era for change through popular uprising in Africa has now come to stay. Be forewarned! Some of these seat tight and corrupt African Leaders should take a cue from what is happening both in Tunisia and Egypt as we speak.

This is a new kind of revolution and is gaining momentum. It's impact is something like anything we've ever seen before. The intent of this neo-revolution is to usurp power from some of these corrupt African leaders and give the power back to the people.

It is glaring and at this point the cause for change is inevitable and spreading like a wildfire. It's effect will be felt across the continent and the end result will be second to none.

I agree with NCP's call for Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to resign and so should GEJ of Nigeria....their mandates are up!

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