Activist-laywer Femi Falana (SAN)
has said that the stoning of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo by supporters of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) during the campaign
rally of the All Peoples Congress (APC) in Abeokuta was treasonable.
Reacting to the incident
yesterday, Falana expressed regret that the Police have not arrested anybody in
connection with the attack on the President, his vice and other leaders of the
APC.
The senior advocate said that
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun cannot absolve himself of the blame as the
chief security officer of the state.
He said the governor was
preparing the stage for confusion when Amosun visited Abuja before last
Monday’s campaign with the governorship candidate of the APM, Adekunle
Akinlade.
He said the President erred by
welcoming them and posing with them to be photographed.
“The governor ought to have been
told long before the campaign that his activities were anti-party,” Falana
said.
The lawyer also blamed the
various security agencies in the state for the incident, noting that they did
nothing to prevent or stop the attack on the President.
He said the security agencies,
despite knowing that the rally was APC’s, allowed another party and its
supporters to infiltrate the venue.
Falana contended that the ugly
situation persisted because Police and other security agencies, who shied away
from their responsibilities.
He recalled a 2007 situation,
when former President Olusegun Obasanjo openly canvassed support for Dr.
Olusegun Agagu against Dr. Segun Mimiko in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Falana recounted how supporters
of former Oyo State governors, Rasheed Ladoja and Adebayo Alao-Akala clashed
and six people died with the police doing nothing to arrest and prosecute
anybody over the incident.
Falana lamented the spate of
disrespect and other acts against the person of the President by the
opposition, describing it as an insult against the Exalted Office.
He recalled that during the
presentation of the 2019 Budget, when the President was booed by some members
of the National Assembly, the only thing he said was that ‘the world is
watching’, noting, “here in Abeokuta, he kept quiet and allowed the situation
to degenerated”.
He said when the President was
attending an APC rally, Imo State and Governor Rochas Okorocha was campaigning
for Action Alliance (AA) governorship candidate, nobody was cautioned.
Also, when in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, the Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, was booed at the APC
rally in the presence of the President, nothing happened.
He described such developments as
security breaches.
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