{"id":19661,"date":"2020-01-02T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19661"},"modified":"2020-01-02T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:40:28","slug":"falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda","title":{"rendered":"Falana reacts as President Buhari rejects third term agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disowning the group advocating for his third term.<\/p>\n<p>Falana said Buhari\u2019s decision not to seek reelection for a third term was in<br \/>\nthe right direction.<\/p>\n<p>The senior lawyer stated this in a statement on Wednesday in reaction to President Buhari\u2019s New Year broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good that President Buhari has disowned the group\u201d, Falana stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the political space should be liberalized without any harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The frontline human rights activist further emphasized the importance of obeying court orders.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAll court orders should be complied with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DSS, police and other security agencies should release hundreds that are being detained without trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d The impunity displayed through total disregard of the Constitution and other laws should stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll public officers whose terms of office have expired should be retired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll new appointments should reflect federal character in line with the provisions of the Constitution\u201d, he advised.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing doubts on the execution of some of the projects listed in the budget, Falana added, \u201cWith 70 per cent of the budget for recurrent expenditure and 25 per cent for debt servicing the projects referred to by President Buhari will not be funded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disowning the group advocating for his third term. Falana said Buhari\u2019s decision not to seek reelection for a third term was in the right direction. The senior lawyer stated this in a statement on Wednesday in reaction to President Buhari\u2019s New Year broadcast. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,119,1134],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-dss","tag-femi-falana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Falana reacts as President Buhari rejects third term agenda - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disowning the group advocating for his third term.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falana reacts as President Buhari rejects third term agenda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Legal luminary, Femi Falana (SAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for disowning the group advocating for his third term.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-02T14:40:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Femi-Falana-1-750x375.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Falana reacts as President Buhari rejects third term agenda\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-02T14:40:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Femi-Falana-1-750x375.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"DSS\",\"Femi Falana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/falana-reacts-as-president-buhari-rejects-third-term-agenda\",\"name\":\"Falana reacts as President Buhari rejects third term agenda - 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