Constitutional
and Human Rights Lawyer Carol Ajie yesterday sent a petition to
President Barack Obama urging him to advise President Muhammadu Buhari
to respect court orders or resign.
The petition to Obama at the White House and copied to the Senate
President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Reps. Dogara
was sent after it was signed online by over 4,000 individuals.
This is coming on the heels of similar calls by rights Activist Femi
Falana SAN and others to President Buhari to respect Court orders and
release accused persons who had been admitted to Court bail.
According to the petition, Buhari’s presidency and agents despised
subsisting order of the Federal High Court, Abuja to release IPOB Leader
Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally, who is still being held in chains, in
dungeon cell since Oct., 14th this the 4th month!
While calling on Obama to call President Buhari to order, the
petitioners also listed other “sins” allegedly committed by President
Buhari to include unfair tactics, expression of prejudices and hostility
towards the people commonly known as “Biafrans”, in the South Eastern
region of Nigeria, gender injustice and the slaughter of more than 300
Shia Muslims.
President Buhari’s trouble started during his first Presidential Media
Chat on national TV Stations, on Wednesday 30th Dec., 2015 wherein he
said that his regime will not release persons in detention despite
several court orders because according to him, they could jump bail, if
allowed freedom.
This, according to the petitioner, caused an uproar, and outright
condemnation, because it is an encroachment on the judicial arm,
calculated to humiliate Judges.
The petitioner alleged that President Buhari deliberately disobeyed
court orders, while he was expected respect the Constitution under which
he took his Oaths.
President Buhari, according to the petitioners should either “protect
our laws or resign from office if he was unable to comply else
impeachment proceedings could be taken against him by our Legislators”.
They also accused President Buhari of keeping gifts tainted with
corruption.
“In the course of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki’s
statements not a few persons were named. According to Dasuki, President
Buhari received 5 SUVs and $300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand US Dollars)
in cash after his SUV was damaged in July 2014.
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