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Mukhtar Zubairu Sirajo, Sola Atere
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July 24, 2018
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Makarfi, Turaki Condemn Police Assault on National Assembly
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Nigerians woke up again this morning to the rather very sad and disturbing incidences of the siege on the residences of Principal Officers of the National Assembly, by detachments of the Nigerian Police Force, obviously to stop them from presiding over the day’s session, which eventually witnessed the defection of some Senators from the ruling party.
Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi considers this assault on the leadership of the National Assembly, an independent arm of government and one of the legs of the tripod upon which the presidential system rests, as dangerous, primitive and one that constitutes a very serious threat to democracy in our country.
It is a clear breach of one of the fundamental tenets of Presidential democracy, which provides for separation of powers. It also constitutes a serious abuse of the fundamental human rights of the targeted individuals, both the presiding officers and the defectors respectively, because the right to associate is inalienable. Sadder still, is the fact that this impunity and crass disrespect to legality and constitutionality are being perpetrated under a government that is itself a beneficiary of respect for the rule of law by the then PDP government.
That the nation’s parliamentarians and their leadership could brazenly be treated like criminals under a democratic setting simply because of political differences is truly an unsettling descent into wanton abuse of power by those sworn to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’. This descent into the abys must be halted and reversed.
These strong-arm tactic adopted by the Police is a setback to our developing democracy and a serious dent on the standing of Nigeria as a bastion of hope in the comity of democratic nations in Africa and it further accentuates the fears of many Nigerians that rather than consolidate on the gains of the 2015 transition, the nation’s democracy is not only stagnant, but being dangerously driven into the precipice by those who ordinarily, ought to know better. This brazen abuse of power, underscores Senator Makarfi’s popular refrain of recent about the need to, as Nigerians respond to the cries of restructuring, look critically at institutions such as the police and others with a view to restructuring them to make them serve the state rather than continue to operate at the whims and caprices of political leaders.
Senator Makarfi appeals to Nigerians to remain peaceful but vigilant and do everything within the law to stand up against forces bent on reversing our democracy gains. He equally calls on the Police and other security agencies to be professional in the discharge of their duties and never forget the fact that their loyalty is to the Nigerian nation, and not the holders of the levers of its political power, as there will always be a Tomorrow.
The Senator also welcomes the many Senators and members of the House of Representatives who have taken the wise decision to return home to the PDP and assures them of his personal commitment to play his own part, to ensure that the party truly welcomes them back.
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Mukhtar Zubairu Sirajo
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TURAKI HAILS SENATE DEFECTORS
Frontline PDP Presidential aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN has welcomed the development at the National Assembly in which some APC Senators have defected to the PDP, thereby giving PDP a clear majority in the Senate.
Turaki who described the development as the beauty of democracy heartily welcomed the Senators back to their ‘natural home’.
He said their coming back to PDP will further strengthen the resolve of the party to rescue Nigerians from the despotic, clueless and nepotistic APC government that has unleashed poverty, insecurity, killings and economic strangulation on Nigerians.
Turaki also condemned the gestapo tactics unleashed on the number Three man in the country,  Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Eke Ekweramadu ostensibly to put them under house arrest illegally by security agents. This is clearly a dangerous attempt to truncate Nigeria’s democracy, he said.
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