The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has reacted to the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to totally implement
the Executive Order 6.
The party urged Nigerians to
reject the attempt by the President Muhammadu Buhari to foist a full-blown
fascism on the nation beginning with the placement of travel restrictions on 50
Nigerians.
The presidency had on Saturday
announced that it would impose travel ban on 50 high-profile persons.
According to the PDP, the step
was clearly targeted at members of the opposition parties, perceived political
enemies of the President, well-meaning Nigerians, including members of the
business community, religious leaders, former political leaders and traditional
rulers, who are perceived to be aversed to President Buhari’s re-election bid.
The opposition party, in a statement
by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday said the development was “a
direct clampdown on our democratic order and an overthrow of rights of our
citizenry as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution (as amended).”
PDP’s statement added, “We hope
this is not a ploy to harm certain eminent Nigerians on the claims of resisting
travel restrictions.
“The whole world can now see how
fascism is fast taking over our democracy and judicial system and how the
Buhari administration, by fiat, has directly ordered that citizens be secretly
trailed, their movements and financial transactions restricted by government
agencies, without recourse to due process of the law.
“While the PDP notes that the
Buhari Presidency has gone into panic mode since the popular emergence of
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as PDP Presidential candidate and the spontaneous
jubilation his emergence has evoked across the country, the party maintains
that the resort to total clamp down on the opposition and our supporters will
be totally unacceptable.
“What this means is that all
Nigerians, particularly, opposition members, members of the business community
and religious leaders, have become endangered and stand the risk of state
violence under the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration.
“The PDP alerts the international
community to hold the Presidency responsible should any harm befall any
opposition leader, key members of the business community and religious leaders
across the country as we march towards the 2019 general elections.”
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