Nigeria’s Silence On USA’s Action Against Venezuela Is Embarrassing – ADC

ADC and APC

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said that Nigeria’s failure to respond to the reported action by the United States against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exposes a crisis of legitimacy and moral authority under the Bola Tinubu government. The party recently had its say via a press statement by the ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.

According to him, the development serves as a warning to governments that lack legitimacy, and it proves that authoritarian leaders and election riggers can no longer depend on national borders to shield stolen mandates from international scrutiny.

He added that the federal government’s silence for more than 48 hours is damaging to the country’s international standing.

His words, “The African Democratic Congress (ADC) considers the Saturday’s action by the United States Government to arrest the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro and his wife as a clear warning that sends a strong message to the Nigerian government and any other government that lacks legitimacy.

ADC strongly supports the principles of sanctity of national sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs of another country as enshrined in Articles 2(1) and 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, principles that underpin global peace and order.

Nevertheless, we maintain that these international governance doctrines that were ordinarily designed to maintain global order should not be invoked to provide a safe haven for tyranny, electoral fraud, or the systematic denial of a people’s right to freely choose their leaders.

It is public knowledge that the 2024 Venezuela presidential elections were widely condemned as illegitimate and deeply flawed by nine governments across Latin America, the European Union, and international democratic institutions, all pointing to a process marked by fraud, repression and exclusion.

ADC also considers as deeply embarrassing that more than 48 hours after the situation in Venezuela, the Nigerian government is yet to react in any way.

Let’s be clear, that the Nigerian government has chosen silence in this moment has nothing to do with neutrality. It instead, reveals a government that lacks confidence simply because it lacks integrity.”