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Nigerians Who Fought Sanni Abacha To A Standstill Will Fight
Buhari’s Dictatorship- Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has lambasted
President Muhammadu Buhari over the placement of a former
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) under house
arrest.
He further said Buhari should be held responsible should
anything untoward happen to Dasuki and that his house arrest
was an abuse of human rights.
He said, “The Department of State Services’ placement of the
former NSA under house arrest despite court order that his
international passport be released so that he could travel abroad
for medical treatment is wicked, inhumane, dictatorial and a
clear attempt to deny him of his rights to life as enshrined in the
constitution of Nigeria.”
The governor also hailed the Federal High Court of Abuja’s ruling
which orders the DSS to allow Dasuki to travel out of the country
for medical treatment.
“Nigerians, especially men of the judiciary, must join hands to
shake dictatorship off the body of President Buhari and his
hatchet man, Alhaji Lawal Daura,” Fayose said in a statement by
his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka. “Nigerians who fought late General Sanni Abacha
to a standstill will fight this emerging Buhari’s ‘milutocracy’,
which is a clear threat to our hard-earned democracy.”
The governor claimed he had been vindicated on his earlier
position that the Director-General of DSS, Lawal Daura, who is a
President Buhari’s kinsman, was an instrument of political
persecution.
He said Daura could be likened the Director-General of DSS to
Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi of the Nigerian Security
Organisation who was also allegedly used by President Buhari as
“instrument of political persecution between 1984 and 1985.”
Fayose said President Buhari should be reminded that the
Nigeria of 1984 is different from that of 2015.
He added, “President Buhari seized late Chief Obafemi
Awolowo’s international passport and prevented him from
travelling abroad for medical care in 1985, thereby leading to his
(Awolowo’s) untimely death in 1987.
“Buhari also hounded former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha, to death, all in the name of fighting perceived
political opponents.”