In a press release issued on Wednesday August 16, the political opposition gathered under the denomination of the Front for the Restoration of Democracy and Defense of the Republic (FRDDR) came openly after the President of the Republic Issoufou Mahamadou.
The FRDDR estimates that “the anti-democratic and anti-national strategy of Issoufou Mahamadou tending to draw the mandates of the decentralized entities in length is only political and legal tinkering which led him to perjury for refusing to obey ruling no 002 / CC / ME of March 7, 2017 of the Constitutional Court ordering the holding of the partial legislative election of the ordinary constituency of Maradi”.
Still according to the political opposition, “President Issoufou Mahamadou, instead of waiting for the fate of the institutions of the Republic for his perjury, is moving at a higher speed by choosing in an outrageously discriminatory manner and in violation of the provisions of Order n° 2010-54 of September 17, 2010, establishing the General Code of Territorial Communities of the Republic of Niger, in particular Article 177 thereof, to dissolve all the councils of the Niamey region alone”.
Faced with such behavior, the opposition is indignant at “the dissolution of the councils of district and city of the Niamey region and rejects this decision which flouts the elementary principles of the expression of the popular will and which puts in danger the cohesion of our people”. It demands however, “the holding of all local elections throughout the national territory”.
Contacted by Sahelien.com, Mr. Aboubacar Mohamed, an indisputable support of the party of President Issoufou, affirms that “the political opposition of the Niger is simply delirious. It finally does not know what to say and what to do. We grant them these groaning”.
Ibrahim Manzo Diallo