Trump reportedly made the
statement shortly after a meeting between the two leaders on April 30.
Buhari, the first sub-Saharan
Africa president to meet Trump since he was sworn in as the 45th American
president, was in the US for bilateral talks.
After the meeting, Trump,
according to the Financial Times, told his aides that he never wanted to meet
someone as “lifeless” as Buhari again.
Reacting, the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) chieftain said Buhari’s actions had caused him ridicule.
The former minister also
condemned Buhari’s statement at the opening ceremony of the Annual General
Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday.
The President, in his speech,
urged lawyers to put national security over and above the rule of law.
On Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said:
“The greatest threat to national security and the national interest is a
President that cannot appreciate the sanctity of the rule of law and the
sacrosanct nature of the constitution.
“If this rhetoric of national
interest and national security being more important than the rule of law
continues it will have grave, disastrous and cataclysmic consequences for our
country.
“It will lead to strong
resistance, subversion of the state, conflict, war and the disintegration of
Nigeria.
“This is because we are not
prepared to live in or accept the imposition of a totalitarian police state
where dissent, opposition, free speech, human rights and civil liberties have
no place.”
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