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.”
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