Women Leader Wants Adherence To Rule Of Law

A Port Harcourt-based women leader and social crusader, Mrs. Kelechi Akpelu, has said that the nation will witness incremental growth if the rule of law rather than rule of self-help is allowed to prevail.
Mrs. Akpelu, who stated this while speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt at the weekend expressed regrets at what she described as continual regression in the Nigerian nation.
She remarked that there had been a deliberate plan to scuttle the prevalence of the rule of law in the Nigerian society by political office holders.
She explained that lack of internal democracy within party framework was wreaking havoc in the society.
The Women leader blamed Nigerian leaders for the horrible situation inthe country that occasioned carnage in most states by the North.
Mrs. Akpelu urged women to continue to be in the fore front of social justice and good governance.
She noted that politicians in Nigeria were self-serving and did not take the nation’s development to heart.
The social analyst warned that the nation would relapse to anarchy if the dis- obedience of court order prevailed.
She urged all to uphold the rule of law.