Mike Ozekhome, a senior lawyer in
the legal team of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the Presidential
Election Petition Tribunal, has set agenda for President Muhammadu Buhari, as
he begins his second term in office.
In a statement on Tuesday,
Ozekhome called on Buhari to be more nationalistic in his approach to
governance.
He also asked the president to
“quickly take Nigeria out of the social, economic and political doldrums he and
his APC government have sunk it”.
“Before the much-awaited Election
Petition Tribunal judgment, President Muhammadu Buhari must quickly take
Nigeria out of the social, economic and political doldrums he and his APC
government have sunk it.
“He should be more nationalistic
in his approach to governance, less sectional, less partial, nepotic, cronystic
and prependalistic. He should drop his stiff garb of suffocating military
imperiousness and jackbootism and know that he is now supposed to be a
Democrat, subject to due process of law, with the attendant democratic
safeguards.
“Buhari should allow Rule of Law
to flourish, learn to obey court orders and respect citizens’ cherished and
inalienable fundamental human rights.
“Buhari must, as president of a
whole nation, drop his 97%-5% bellyaching mantra and endeavour to be less
divisive and vindictive; and treat all Nigerians equally and as one, whether
they presumably voted for him or not.
“He must stop promoting the
superiority, suzerignty and sovereignty of his ethnic group over and above the
other more than 350 ethnic groups in Nigeria.
“He must give democracy dividends
to the Nigerian prople, through the provision of adequate security (Section 14
of the 1999 Constitution), robust economy and infrastructural development.
“He should think outside the box
of how to fight corruption, as his performance in this regard has been woeful,
selective, exclusionary and favouritism-based.
“Nigeria is more corrupt today
than ever before (according to latest Transparency International Corruption
Perception Index).
“Where corruption could be said
to have been “democratised” by previous governments before him, corruption
under Buhari has been greatly “privatised” by a few high-healed cabalistic
elements.
Thus, corruption money, unlike
before now, no longer circulates or sip down to the common people.
It has been hijacked privatised
and held down by the jugular by these few elements at the precincts and
corridors of temporary power.
“More importantly, Buhari should
dust up the over 600 ground-breaking recommendations of the 2014 National
Conference scripted by 491 delegates from across Nigeria (wherein I was a
Federal Government delegate, and voted “Cicero of the 2014 National
Conference”) and implement them.
“Some of the most important
amongst them is the vexed but overdue issue of devolution of powers and
restructuring of the un-working Nigerian contraption, to become a truly fiscal
and federal system of government,” the statement read.
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