Opposition groups in Nigeria have called protest marches on Monday to demand the resignation of President Olusegun Obasanjo in defiance of police warnings that their protest plans are illegal.
"You can no longer use elections as a means of change because they've been so blatantly rigged using the security agencies that that option has been completely eliminated," Balarabe Musa, leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), told IRIN.
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At the same time in the southern commercial capital of Lagos, the United Action for Democracy (UAD) - a coalition of 26 human rights and pro-democracy groups - has scheduled simultaneous street protests.
Both groups accuse Obasanjo's government of rigging elections organised under his rule and failing to meet the expectations of good government by Nigerians. Their protests will demand that Obasanjo quits power and hands over to a national unity government that will work out a new constitutional order for the country of 126 million people, they said.
Musa told IRIN that apart from their complaints over the elections, the protests had become imperative because of worsening poverty, insecurity, corruption and the collapse of public services under Obasanjo.
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