Democracy Day: Buhari is Running Nigeria Like a Civilian Dictator - NBA

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of running the country like a dictator for the past two years.

According to the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owerri, Imo State Chapter, Lawrence Nwakaeti, Buhari has set Nigeria back by decades as far as democracy is concerned.

 

“May I take us to recent happenings in the polity where the rule of law and all known tenets of constitutional democracy have been abused with impunity. Namely, the desecration of the judiciary as an institution by the executive, disobedience to court orders, clamp down on non-violent protesters, treating the issue of the president’s ill health with secrecy, media trial of suspected persons, incessant clamp down of persons with opposing views without trial and if there is an order of court for the release, refusal to obey the said order”.

He also said the Buhari government is full of hypocrites who don't have the best interest of Nigerians at heart.