The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) says it is considering a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari
over the executive order authorising seizure of assets suspected to be acquired
with stolen funds.
Buhari signed the order which
seeks to deny suspects access to assets seized by agencies investigating them.
In a statement by Kola
Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the opposition party, PDP described the order as not
just a dangerous step towards a descent to fascism but a disregard to the
provisions of 1999 constitution.
“Already, our lawyers are
considering a legal action against the federal government on the illegality of
Mr President’s action in the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians,” the statement
read.
political instrument, to haunt,
traumatize, harass and victimize perceived political opponents.
“Mr President wants to change our
democratic governance to a military regime, in line with his lamentation, two
days ago, that the fight against corruption will be better under a military
regime than under a democracy.”
It said there could be no
legitimate latitude of interpretation placed on sections 5 and 15 (5) of the
1999 constitution cited as justifications for the executive order.
“It is instructive to emphasize
that the PDP is not in any way opposed to the fight against corruption. Rather,
the party holds that the imposition of this executive order, which is radically
at variance with the provisions of the constitution, is totally unacceptable,”
it said.
“PDP takes this executive order 6
of 2018 as a re-enactment of the obnoxious Decree 2 of 1984, which incidentally
was also an enactment under then military head of state, General Muhammadu
Buhari.
“This must not be permitted in
our current democratic dispensation.’’
The party urged the judiciary and
the legislature to save Nigeria by rejecting the executive order.
“Nigeria is a democratic state
run by the dictates of the law and the constitution and not by the rule of the
thumb of any elected officer,” it added.
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