Buhari Has No Right To Declare Kanu, Dasuki Guilty - Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state
commented on the tone of President
Muhammadu Buhari during the December 30
presidential media chat in the section that
concerned some of the ‘controversial’
prisoners Nigeria has at the moment. He also
called on international organisations to focus
their attention on human rights abuses and
contempt for the rule of law in the country
come 2016.
“I warned several times that those that were
promoting this lion would end up in its belly.
Having heard from the President himself
declaring Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu guilty even
before trial, Nigerians should be prepared for a
return of the 1984 experience in which Buhari’s
military tribunal sentenced people to jail terms
ranging from 21 to 300 years, such that the
Nigerian Bar Association had to boycott the
tribunal,” Fayose was quoted by TheGuardian.

The governor mentioned he was not really
surprised that Buhari justified the
disobedience of court orders by the
Department of State Security (DSS). In the
statement, Lere Olayinka, Fayose’s special
assistant on public communications and new
media, he also noted that this was not the
first time the president was displaying the
‘hallmark of a dictator’.
This Wednesday President Buhari could not
dodge answering the questions about the
further fate of Nnamdi Kanu and Sambo
Dasuki. Both of them have been granted bail,
the order that has been ignored by the DSS.
The president explained that Nigerians simply
did not know all the horrible details on the
crimes committed by the two. Therefore,
Kanu and Dasuki simply do not deserve being
released on bail. Buhari do not want to see
them ‘relaxing in London’.