A group, under the aegis of Think-Tank for Democracy, yesterday, described the call for interim government as an agenda of anti-democratic elements in the polity to truncate the current democratic process.

Chairman of the group, Prof. Lucky Akaruese, in an address read by the Secretary, Prof. Sylvester Odion Akhaine, during a media briefing, said other proponents of the interim contraption were doing so to ambush democracy.

Akaruese said that it was regrettable that after over two decades of democracy, the country is still grappling with basic democratic principles, which if not properly handled and effectively checked, have the potential to set the country back into the dark days of military dictatorship.

He said many of those who are today parading themselves as politicians and group leaders and threatening Nigeria’s nascent democracy without regard to the rule of law did not play any role during the bloody democratic struggle.

The group, therefore, urged the incoming administration of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to address poverty, unemployment, insecurity, separatist agitation, debt overhang, corruption, poor infrastructure and “skewed” power distribution.

On his part, Special Adviser to Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Drainage and Water Resources, Joe Igbokwe, said: “It’s not going to happen (interim government). We are witnesses of history and we won’t allow what happened in 1993 to repeat itself. The interim government was initiated from the section of the country I come from and it’s the same section calling for it again. Interim government will not happen.”