BUHARI'S MISSILES AT DEMOCRACY!
The saying that the leopard does not change its spots remains an incontrovertible truth. It is equally believed that an old woman never gets tired of the dancing steps she knows too well.
After thirteen years of consecutive military rule, 1966-1979, the Nigerian military under General Olusegun Obasanjo, handed power over to a democratic government headed by President Shehu Shagari in 1979.
It should be recalled that Major-Gen Muhammadu Buhari was an active participant in and beneficiary of the military hegemony. He had been a military governor for the North-East and was later made a federal minister in the wealth-compressed ministry of petroleum.
As a natural dictator, Buhari has disdain for democracy. He hates civil rule. He abhors patience for democracy.
There is no perfect sociey in life. All the years, people have learnt through their mistakes or those of others.
If General Buhari had suppressed his hatred for democracy and not overthrown the democratically elected government of Shagari on 31st of December, 1983 by now our democracy would have become stable and stronger.
His regime that lasted up to July 1985 saw Nigerians go through hell. There was deprivation, poverty and hunger in the land. Above all, Nigerians were denied their fundamental human rights. Inspite of the waves of hardship, General Buhari remained adamantly insensitive.
Nigerians heaved a deep sigh of relief when God used General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida to ease him out of power in 1985.
Nigerians know the pedigree of General Buhari as an avowed enemy of democracy and that was why they rejected him in 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections.
It was due to the global economic situation which had affected Nigeria that Buhari and his All Progressives Congress had capitalized upon, with all manner of propaganda of calumny, to deceive vulnerable Nigerians to vote for him in the April 2015 presidential election.
Since the emergence of President Buhari, in less than one year, Nigeria has not been the same. The economy has summersaulted five hundred times down the drain. In fact, despite the high level of propaganda concocted and sold as dummy to the Nigerian people, the Buhari Presidency, having reached its wits end accepted that Nigeria was in the ditch of economic recession.
Aside ineptitude in managing the National economy, the worst trait that the Buhari Presidency has consistently and unrepentantly exhibited is its total disrespect and disregard for the rule of law.
For President Buhari, court verdicts are only subject to his discretion. His government is not under any obligation to obey any court ruling.
Specifically, Buhari, true to the dictator he is, has no tolerance for opposition in democracy. This is sharply in contrast to the era of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He has not hidden his intent to make sure that the country's major opposition Party, the Peoples' Democratic Party, is nailed into extinction. He wants to achieve this very obnoxious objective by giving undue presidential advantage to a very unpopular factional leader of PDP, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff who is closely related to him by marriage, in the latter's fight against the mainstream of the Party.
Ali Modu Sheriff became an Acting Chairman of PDP only by the decision of the National Executive Committee just to fill the vacant chairmanship position after the resignation of Muazu.
By the Constitution of the Peoples' Democratic Party, National Chairman of the Party shall be elected only by the National Convention.
Interestingly and constitutionally, the Party's National Convention met on May 21, 2016 at Port-Harcourt and appointed a National caretaker Committee headed by Alhaji Ahmed Markarfi.
The Caretaker Committee was asked to conduct a National Convention to elect members of the National Executive Committee within ninety days which expires today. Hence the Party scheduled the Convention to hold today in Port-Harcourt.
It is important to state that to ascertain and guarantee the constitutionality and legitimacy of the resolutions and decisions of the National Convention of May 21, the Party had approached the Federal High Court in Port-Harcourt, presided over by Hon Justice Liman.
The Court clearly ruled that the National Convention was constitutionally and legitimately convened and that all resolutions and actions taken thereof were lawful, legitimate and, therefore, binding.
Sheriff, acting as a mould, appealed against the judgement of Hon Justice Liman.
The Appeal Court has not vacated the ruling. Therefore, the ruling subsists.
Ali Modu Sheriff, propelled by the APC's unhidden agenda to drive PDP into oblivion, approached a judge that has made notoriety his watch-word, Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Court Abuja to obtain an interim injunction restraining the Ahmed Markarfi led Caretaker Executive from holding today's National Convention at Port-Harcourt.
Lawyers tell us that a court judgement takes precedence over an interlocutory injunction, more so when the two courts are of coordinate jurisdiction.
Besides, when two courts of equal authority give two different orders on the same matter, equity, lawyers say, demands that the first order to be given is the one to be adhered to.
It is, therefore, clear that for the Inspector-General of Police to have authorized the seal off of the Shark's Stadium, proposed venue of today's convention in Port-Harcourt, despite the above facts, President Buhari and his APC think the only obstacle on their way to 2019 is the PDP.
But do you know what? They failed woefully today! PDP is made up of very experienced political tacticians and administrators. The Party quietly and almost seamlessly beat Buhari and APC to it.
What was sealed off was only the decorated Shark's Stadium. They could not seal off the Convention itself.
The Convention, therefore, successfully took place at the Rivers State PDP State Secretariat.
Highlights of the Convention were the extension of the tenure of the Senator Ahmed Markarfi led Caretaker Committee by one year while members of the Committee were increased to thirteen.
The PDP in Abia State congratulates the Party on this very successful National Convention. Up PDP!
Don Ubani; KSC, JP
Okwubunka of Asa
State Pub-Sec
PDP, Abia State.

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