The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) says no one has treated the national assembly with disdain like Ibrahim
Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP).
The IGP was expected to appear
before senate over growing security concerns and the case of Dino Melaye,
senator representing Kogi west, but he failed to honour the senate’s invitation
on three different occasions.
In a statement on Wednesday, Kola
Ologbondiyan, spokesman of PDP, described the failure of the IGP to appear
before the senate as an “assault on our democratic process.”
Ologbondiyan wondered why
President Muhammadu Buhari has not reprimanded the IGP.
“This deliberate assault on our
democratic process, willful denigration of the national assembly and recourse
to totalitarianism has not been reprimanded by President Muhammadu Buhari, as
the chief security officer of the nation,” the statement read.
“It is instructive to state that
never in our democratic history as a people and a nation, has a service chief
or an inspector general of police treated the national assembly with as much
dishonor and disdain like the current IGP.
“All over the world, the
legislature is a bastion of democracy and our constitution, in recognition of
this, provides a special place for our national assembly, as the
representatives of the people, to serve as a check on the executive arm.
“We therefore condemn this
offensive on our democracy by IGP Idris as well as the deliberate insult being
heaped on each of our legislators by appointees of President Buhari. We invite
Nigerians to note that totalitarianism does not begin in a day. It starts from
a deliberate disrespect to statutes, laws and institutions that engender
democracy and rule of law.
“Consequently, the PDP, as a
party, urges the president of the senate and senators to protect the institution
of the legislature and our democracy by not limiting their action only to
finding Mr. Ibrahim Idris as unfit to hold public office.”
The spokesman asked the senate to
act within their powers to restore respect and dignity to the legislature.
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