National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Wednesday said that the federal Government under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari is orchestrating the destruction of democracy in the country because of the nefarious agenda of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig next month’s Presidential election.
Secondus, in a statement by his spokesman, Ike Abonyi, said that the President and his team are arm twisting the Code of Conduct Tribunal to force out the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen because they believe that an independent Judiciary will obstruct their rigging plan.
The National Chairman, who was reacting to the Tuesday’s court proceedings and report that Federal Government had asked the CJN to vacate office, said that the illegal provocative action has left no one including the global democracies in doubt that indeed democratic rule has been suspended in Nigeria to pave way for dictatorship.
“The blackmail, the frame up and the orchestration of fictitious figures in the CJN’s bank accounts by the government and their agents are all deliberate ploy to destroy the envious career of a man because of desperation for power
“What they are trying to do is not only illegal but a recipe for anarchy and breakdown of rule of law and must be vehemently resisted
The National Chairman of the main opposition party said that it’s now very glaring that President Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have concluded plans to plunge this country into a major crisis in frustration for their apparent inevitable rejection by Nigerians.
He said that trying to force the head of an arm of government out of office without following the clearly laid down procedures amounts to breach of rules and an invitation to major national crisis.
