Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has advised President Muhammadu
Buhari to respect the democratic principles of separation of powers by
allowing the judiciary to do its job in proper prosecution of people
accused of corruption
Fayose urged the President to stop castigating
the judiciary and making the arm of government to appear as the
stumbling block in his fight against corruption.
In a statement
on Monday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose also urged the President to tell
Nigerians the truth about the Boko Haram insurgency, saying, “They keep
telling us that they have defeated Boko Haram technically while
Nigerians are still being killed daily by Boko Haram, with over 100
people killed in Dalori, less than 12km to Maiduguri, Borno State
capital.
“Isn’t it now necessary for the President to fulfill his
promise of leading from the front and getting his Information Minister,
Lai Mohammed to go and hold a press briefing in Sambisa forest unguarded
by military men so as to show to Nigerians that indeed, they have
defeated Boko Haram technically?”
Fayose said President
Buhari should have simply told the whole world that he hated the Nigeria
Judiciary because he lost the petitions that he filed against his
electoral defeats in 2003, 2007 and 2011, instead of hiding under the
fight against corruption to ventilate his anger.
The governor, who
said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added
that “in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones
responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to
use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting
judgments from election tribunals.”
He said making noise in the
media about discovery of fraud was different from being able to prove
allegations of fraud in the court, adding that “The President and his
men should stop the media trial and playing with bogus figures. This is
because as it is today, President Buhari is not fighting any corruption.
Rather, he is engaging in political persecution in his bid to weaken
opposition both in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and within his own
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
“Even the
president’s party men are beginning to condemn openly the trial of
people accused of corruption in the media, with newspapers quoting
Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) on Saturday as describing it as convicting the
suspects without giving them fair hearing.
“When your own men are
corrupting an institution like the judiciary just because they needed
to win back states like Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Taraba and others that they
lost at the polls, thereby causing the courts to give conflicting
judgments, it is morally wrong for you to go outside the country and
complain about such a judiciary.
“When your party men are
encouraging people to commit perjury and confess to rigging elections
just to discredit electoral victories of PDP and those made to confess
to committing these crimes are allowed to walk the streets free just
because they are serving the interest of APC, such a president lacks
moral rights to complain about any institution stalling his fight
against corruption because his own party men are number one promoters of
corruption.
“The President must therefore act like a
democratically elected president that he is by respecting the judiciary,
which is a separate arm of government before his complain about the
role of the judiciary in his fight against corruption can be taking
seriously,” the statement read.
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