Questions Trump should ask Buhari –PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has listed issues it feels the United States of America (USA) President, Donald Trump, should ask his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, when they meet on Sunday in Washington DC.

Citing all the perceived evils of the current Nigerian government, including the recent United States Department of States report, which alleged cases of extreme human rights violations under Buhari’s administration, the PDP urged President Trump to ask Buhari questions on the way he runs his government.

The PDP made this call through its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, when he addressed newsmen at a press conference on the state of the nation in Abuja on Saturday

“Nigeria is facing a perilous time; our constitution has been technically suspended; we have now become a police state; governance has reverted to the nightmares of the 1984 era, when draconian leaders held sway and forcefully held our people under the grips of military Decree 2.

“Currently, there is a total collapse of respect for constitutionally-guaranteed personal freedom. There is no regard for the natural course of justice, life in Nigeria is gradually returning to the state of nature and there is fear everywhere.

“Today, Nigerians are being hounded, arrested and directly detained on ‘order from above’, without warrant. Citizens are locked up in dehumanising detention centres without access to medical care and legal assistance just for holding political opinions that run contrary to the views of those in power at the centre,” Ologbondiyan said.

Speaking further he said, “Indeed, the height of human rights abuse being witnessed in our country today is the worst in our national contemporary history. As we speak, government’s inaction and aloofness have led to escalation of killings in Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Nasarawa, Edo, Zamfara, Ekiti and Enugu by insurgents and marauders, who are having a field day as the Presidency has abandoned governance for 2019 reelection bid.”

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Also in a statement on Saturday, the national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, accused Buhari of running a “police state” and cautioned against his government clamp down on those with opposing views, a development he said was capable of truncating democracy.

In the statement through his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Ike Aboyi, Secondus said that nobody is “safe again in Nigeria under President Buhari.”

He said, “Legislators are not safe, judges are living and working in fear; the media are being harassed, security agencies have all become tools of oppression for the government. Dictatorial signs are all over the place, threatening our democracy.”

 

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