Fayose to Buhari: Nothing must happen to Dasuki

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Friday, called on Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible if anything bad happens to the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki

Fayose, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the placement of the Dasuki on house arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS) despite court order that his international passport be released so that he can travel abroad for medical treatment is wicked, inhuman, dictatorial and a clear attempt to deny him of his rights to life as enshrined in the Constitution of Nigeria.

Hailing Friday’s ruling of an Abuja Federal High Court directing the DSS to allow the former NSA to embark on his medical trip abroad, the governor said “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.”

According to Fayose, he was particularly happy that Justice A‎demola Adeniyi, insisted that court orders must be obeyed and that his own orders will not be flouted.

The governor also added that “Nigerians, who fought late General Sanni Abacha to a standstill will fight this emerging Buhari’s ‘militocracy,’ which is a clear threat to our hard-earned democracy.”

The governor insisted that he has been vindicated on his earlier position that the Director General of DSS, Lawal Daura who is President Buhari’s kinsman, was an instrument of political persecution, while also likening him to Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi, of the Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO) that was also used by Buhari as instrument of political persecution between 1984 and 1985.

The governor also said the President has to be reminded that the Nigeria of 1984 that he ruled like a fiefdom is different from that of 2015.

He said: “President Buhari seized late Chief Obafemi Awolowo international passport and prevented him from travelling abroad for medicare in 1985, thereby leading to his (Awolowo) untimely death of 1987.

“Buhari also hounded former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to death all in the name of fighting perceived political opponents.

“Therefore, it has become necessary to raise the alarm that nothing must happen to Dasuki.

“The fate that befell Awolowo in 1985 must not be allowed to befall Sambo Dasuki in 2015 and Nigerians must rise against this Buhari’s dictatorship and his instrument of oppression, Lawal Daura.”

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