Ex-Minister Visits Friend In Kuje Prison, Urges Nigerians To Rise Against Civilian Dictatorship

A former Minister of Youth and Sports under the administration of Former President, Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung, has declared that the battle line has been drawn against Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, NSA, to President Bola Tinubu, for the defence of freedom.

Dalung made this known after visiting Professor Usman Yusuf at the Kuje Correctional Facility, Abuja, on Tuesday.

Professor Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance scheme, NHIS, was on Monday arraigned on a five count-charge bordering on embezzlement, conferring undue advantage, and fraud to the tune of N90, 439,178.00( Ninety Million, Four Hundred and Thirty Nine Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy Eight Naira only) and subsequently remanded.

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The former sport Minister who is not on the same page with the NSA noted that “With the current threats to our defiant Comrade Na’ajaratu Mohammed by mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Tinubu’s NSA, the battle line is drawn for the defence of freedom.”

Dalung on his verified Facebook post called on Nigerians to rise against civilian dictatorship saying “This is a clarion call to the struggle community to buckle up for challenges of civilian dictatoship. We must rally round the #freeprofusman struggle by availing yourselves to all court sessions if you can afford.

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” We shall return to the streets if justice remains elusive. An injury to one is an injury to all, therefore we are all prisoners of conscience only waiting to be picked. However we are resolute in our conviction that every struggle has a price and a new Nigeria is attainable.”