By Gbenga Olarinoye
OSOGBO—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun State chapter, yesterday
warned President Muhammadu Buhari against acts capable of plunging the
country into civil war, saying tampering with the constitutionally
guaranteed immunity of governors would spell doom for the country.
The party, in a statement issued in Osogbo by its Director of Research,
Publicity and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, urged the President to
immediately drop plans to alleged plans to impose travel ban on
governors of Rivers and Ekiti states – Nyesom Wike and Ayo Fayose,
respectively, saying there was nothing done to Buhari by the duo that
Rauf Aregbesola of Osun did not do to Goodluck Jonathan while he was in
office.
Odeyemi said the same Section 308 of the constitution that gives the
President immunity also provides the governors with same leverage,
adding that, instead of tinkering with the idea of travel ban on the
governors, if any security infraction is noticed, the President should
approach the court.
Recalling how the PDP Obasanjo-led Federal Government approached the
court when the administration of Senator Bola Tinubu created local
government areas in Lagos State, Odeyemi opined that adding the salt of
travel ban on governors with immunity which is the same as the
president, to the injury of constant flouting of court orders by the
Buhari administration in the last one year is not portraying the
president as a true democrat.
The statement reads in part: “Since the news broke of plans by Buhari to
ban PDP governors Ayo Fayose and Nyesom Wike from travelling using
Department of State Security, DSS, as threat, images of events of the
past years have kept on reappearing
“We don’t want anything that can truncate this democracy. Attempt to
strip two PDP governors of their immunity is capable of enacting civil
war .”
The party then called on all past leaders to prevail on President Buhari
to shelve the idea to save the country of needless tension and
constitutional crises.
OSOGBO—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun State chapter, yesterday
warned President Muhammadu Buhari against acts capable of plunging the
country into civil war, saying tampering with the constitutionally
guaranteed immunity of governors would spell doom for the country.
The party, in a statement issued in Osogbo by its Director of Research,
Publicity and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, urged the President to
immediately drop plans to alleged plans to impose travel ban on
governors of Rivers and Ekiti states – Nyesom Wike and Ayo Fayose,
respectively, saying there was nothing done to Buhari by the duo that
Rauf Aregbesola of Osun did not do to Goodluck Jonathan while he was in
office.
Odeyemi said the same Section 308 of the constitution that gives the
President immunity also provides the governors with same leverage,
adding that, instead of tinkering with the idea of travel ban on the
governors, if any security infraction is noticed, the President should
approach the court.
Recalling how the PDP Obasanjo-led Federal Government approached the
court when the administration of Senator Bola Tinubu created local
government areas in Lagos State, Odeyemi opined that adding the salt of
travel ban on governors with immunity which is the same as the
president, to the injury of constant flouting of court orders by the
Buhari administration in the last one year is not portraying the
president as a true democrat.
The statement reads in part: “Since the news broke of plans by Buhari to
ban PDP governors Ayo Fayose and Nyesom Wike from travelling using
Department of State Security, DSS, as threat, images of events of the
past years have kept on reappearing
“We don’t want anything that can truncate this democracy. Attempt to
strip two PDP governors of their immunity is capable of enacting civil
war .”
The party then called on all past leaders to prevail on President Buhari
to shelve the idea to save the country of needless tension and
constitutional crises.
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