President Muhammadu Buhari’s two years in office has been described as a reign of impunity and abuse of rule of law, the chairman of the Owerri Branch of Nigerian Bar Association, Lawrence Nwakaeti, has said.
According to him, the President and the All Progressives Congress have set the country backwards by decades as long as Democratic norms were concerned.
Nwakaeti stated these in a statement he issued in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Monday on the occasion of the 2017 democracy day celebration.
According to him, the rule of law and all known tenets of constitutional democracy have been abused with impunity within the last two years that President Buhari has been holding sway.
The Owerri NBA chairman accused the federal government of desecrating the Judiciary, disobedience to court orders, clamp down on non-violent protesters, treating the issue of Mr president’s ill health with secrecy, among others.
The statement partly read “As far any true Democrat who understands the norms of democracy is concerned, the two years administration of the APC has set us back by decades.
“Some of us were expecting an improvement on the gains recorded so far before the coming into office by the ruling party. What we have mainly seen which we erroneously describe as democracy is a civilian dictatorship as aptly coined by one northern Elder statesman.
“May I take us to recent happenings in the polity where the rule of law and all known tenets of constitutional democracy have been abused with impunity. Namely, the desecration of the judiciary as an institution by the executive, disobedience to court orders, clamp down on non-violent protesters, treating the issue of the president’s ill health with secrecy, media trial of suspected persons, incessant clamp down of persons with opposing views without trial and if there is an order of court for the release, refusal to obey the said order”.
He described the APC-led government as a bundle of hypocrites, alleging that the federal government was not sincere to the Nigerian people.
Similarly, a pro-democracy activist, Kingsley Oguine, said within the last two years, Nigerians have been improvised and made to suffer longer than necessary.
Accessing Buhari’s two years anniversary, Oguine said “instead of economic and infrastructural development in the country, it has been witch hunting in the name of fight against corruption. The best way to fight corruption is to strengthen institutions of democracy and end poverty”.
Oguine said that the president had disappointed millions of Nigerians who trooped out en mass to vote him into power, saying that cost of living had become more expensive and not within the reach of ordinary Nigerians than when the previous administration was in charge.
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