The National Chairman of the
People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has warned President
Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, against
muzzling the legislature and the other arms of government.
Secondus, speaking against the
backdrop of the obvious direct involvement of the President and his party in
the Tuesday’s election of principal officers of the 9th Assembly said that the
doctrine of separation of power must be respected and guided to avoid
dictatorship.
In a statement by his spokesman,
Ike Abonyi, Secondus said secret intelligence to the party shows that the
Presidency and the APC have concluded plans to use intimidation and coercion
against legislators not ready to do their bidding in their desperation to hoist
leadership on the legislators.
He revealed that the Presidency
and the APC have been arm-twisting the technocrat officials of the National
Assembly to fashion out favourable rules that would enable them have their way.
He said that the apparent
disregard to the basic principles of separation of power by this regime points
clearly to their eventual destination which is dictatorship.
The National Chairman said that
the executive was trying to take over the 9th Assembly so as to realize their
long-held aspiration of hijacking the legislature which began in August last
year during the state-sponsored stealing of the Senate mace and the aborted
illegal seizure of the 8th Assembly.
“Indications are clearly showing
that full-blown dictatorship brewing in our country.
“When a supposed democratic
government brazenly muscles all the other arms of government, the legislature,
the Judiciary and even the press, the fourth estate of the realm, we should be
worried at what is loading in our polity.
Prince Secondus said that any
government not disposed to respecting the separation of power and rule of law
as enshrined in our constitution in a democratic setting is looking for
absolute authority which is nothing but totalitarianism.
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