The group said Dalong's style of dressing allegedly similar to a cultist violates extant national dress code in a purely civilian-led democratic government and must be checked forthwith.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, a pro-democracy non-governmental organisation, has asked President Buhari to probe the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalong, over his preference for appearing in red beret cap and dressing that 'depicts him as a suspected member of one of the banned confraternities/secret cults in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.'
Accorsing to Daily Post, the Rights group said it was worried that if appropriate clarifications were not immediately provided and the minister asked to desist from dressing comically on national stage, it could be construed that Buhari’s government had officially endorsed the particular secret confraternity that is identified by the adorning of red beret and dresses that looks like military fatigue.
HURIWA in a statement signed jointly by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, called on Buhari to call Dalong to order and compel him to dress properly and decently so as not to send confusing signal and impression that belonging to any of the confraternities renowned for causing intra-campus uprisings resulting in violence is now an acceptable national past time.
"If the minister strongly feels like wearing a distinctive clothes then he can as well adorn himself with the validly permitted legal regalia or alternatively he can take a Chieftain title that will guarantee him a unique dress mode that won’t attract suspicions," the group added.