Uche Secondus, national chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused President Muhammadu Buhari
of turning blind eyes to the “monumental corruption’ among those under him.
In a statement, Secondus alleged
that the president is haunting the judiciary in order to cow judges into
submission.
Secondus was reacting to Buhari’s
recent comment on the trial of Walter Onnoghen, former chief justice of Nigeria.
While hosting leaders of
Afenifere, Pan-Yoruba socio-political group on Tuesday, Buhari had said he was
reluctant to deal with Onnoghen but the evidence against him was weighty.
But the PDP national chairman
said the president’s “disdain for the judiciary” was becoming dangerous and
antithetical to democratic norms.
Secondus urged the president to
look inwards and focus on the “stinking executive and stop the hostility and
ill-treatment of the nation’s judiciary”.
“He (Buhari) has continued to
bemoan his past with the judiciary by displaying his unconcealed anger and
unforgiving desire to take a pound of flesh on them,” he said.
“The motive behind the endless
attacks on the judiciary by the president, especially Tuesday’s narration of
his so-called ordeal with the courts, is strategically designed to cow them
into submission to his undemocratic desires.
“We all know it as a fact that
the motive of the president in his countless berating of members of the
judiciary at the slightest moment is deliberately designed to frighten them,
take away their confidence and force them to submit to his wishes by
intimidation.
“He ceaselessly berates the
judiciary and turns blind eye to the monumental corruption going on in the executive
arm.”
Secondus urged members of the
judiciary not to abdicate their responsibilities in order to sustain the
country’s democracy.
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