If anybody is not satisfied with the current administration wait for the next election and cast your vote – Dele Alake tells Nigerians
The Federal Government has advised Nigerians advocating for a regime change to wait until the 2027 presidential election to cast their votes.
Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, made this statement while speaking to State House correspondents after the first Council of State meeting under President Bola Tinubu on August 13.
Alake suggested that recent anti-hunger protests were an attempt by certain groups to initiate a regime change but that these efforts were strongly resisted. He also noted that the council expressed gratitude to Nigerians for opposing this unconstitutional attempt to alter the government.
“Matters of state were discussed in a robust manner, and the National Security Adviser was on hand to present the security situation of the country, and he did inform the Council of State about the pre-, during and post-events of the last protest which I do not call a protest.
I call it a movement to effect a change of regime by force which was also resisted. The council thanked Nigerians at large for resisting an unconstitutional move to change government. If anybody is not satisfied with the government, or the current administration, there is always an election coming, so you wait for the election and cast your vote.
The NSA briefed the council on the security situation and laid bare… So after the NSA briefing, he allayed everybody’s fears and spoke on the tightness of the security around the country and also reassured all that nobody will be allowed to truncate our hard earned democracy.
Any change of government has to be through the ballot and not through the barrel of the gun, or through insurrection or through any other unconstitutional means. Only through the ballot box can any government be changed and reassured of the security readiness of all security agencies in the country to secure our territorial integrity and to protect Nigerian’s democracy.” he said
