United States President, Mr. Barack Obama,


Petition garnered over 4,000 signatories, 47,000 views
Senator Iroegbu in Abuja

United States President, Mr. Barack Obama, has been formally presented with over 4,000 signatory petition, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to respect court orders, uphold the constitution of Nigeria or resign from office.


The petition, which is being championed by a Legal Practitioner, Constitutional and Human Rights Lawyer, Ms. Carol Ajie, was sent to Obama on Monday, urging him to bear his influence on Buhari to respect the rule of law.


Ajie had in the petition which was launch on the new year eve through the popular petition site Change.org, with over 4,000 signatories and 47,000 views, also urged the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), lawyers, legislators, National Judicial Council (NJC) and benchers, among others, to “call on President Buhari to resign from office for his disobedience to court orders.”


The concerned lawyer with the support of other members of the judicial arm of the government, including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), asserted that Buhari, by his statements during the Presidential Media Chat at the State House in Abuja, was behind the flagrant disobedience to court orders.


Through the petition, Ajie made what she described as a clarion call on President Obama and other concerned stakeholders to “respectfully call President Buhari to order, prohibit violence from politics and rights advocacy campaigns, ask President Buhari to respect court orders or resign, support Nigeria and Nigerians to achieve true federalism or support the path to a confederation of independent states in Nigeria.”


She listed some factors in the current administration which necessitated the petition including “sectional tension, deliberate acts of inhumanity and dehumanisation, gender injustice, presidential profligacy and budget 2016 and disobedience of court orders.”


She said: “President Buhari’s unfair tactics, expression of prejudices and hostility towards the people commonly known as ‘Biafrans’ in the South-eastern region of Nigeria, is a bad precedent against our peaceful co-existence. The gravamen of his complaint is that the Igbos did not vote for him in March 2015. His supporters now tag the South-east derogatorily as ‘Biafra.’ Elected as President, he must be magnanimous in victory.


“President Buhari was quoted as saying those who didn’t vote for him will be punished and sadly demonstrated this in a modern society.”
Ajie in the petition, also accused the president of deliberate acts of inhumanity and dehumanisation, especially against the Shiites and Biafran agitators, liking his treatment of these two groups to what led to the 1994 Rwanda genocide.


The human rights activist accused President Buhari of gender injustice, saying: “For obscure reasons, President Buhari ceded only 15 per cent to women in his cabinet, without remorse or apologies. Hence must be held to keep this and his other campaign promises and pledges, please.”

Source

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obama-receives-formal-petition-against-buhari-for-disregard-of-court-orders/230198/

Obama? Has he now become the President of the International Court of Justice, or has America become our new colonial masters?
The petition is as misdirected & attention-seeking as it is frivolous. For example, what is derogatorary about the name 'Biafra', a name even the bearers prefer to be called?

yes Obama

that is where he (Buhari) visits always

And what the hell will Obama do about

Juxtified:
Obama? Has he now become the President of the International Court of Justice, or has America become our new colonial masters?

I wonder oh. But truly some body needs to hear this if not obama maybe MUGABE OR ASSAD of Syria.

And what would Obama do, arrest Buhari?

excellence44:



I wonder oh. But truly some body needs to hear this if not obama maybe MUGABE OR ASSAD of Syria.

lol. Mugabe indeed. You should have added Putin to complete the list.

Great news! Many of us are so used to having our rights abused that we no longer know what human right means. Our Judiciary should be obeyed.

Of course Obama cannot arrest Buhari.
The whole essence of the petition is to put pressure on the President of Nigeria either through a formal representation of the ambassador of the US to Nigeria or through other diplomatic channels.

Matters like this shows the acceptability of the influence of the superpowers while also limited by the powers of sovereignty.
Thus Obama may not be able to call Buhari and order him to drop the abuse of court orders but he could put pressure on him and if he slides further into other more serious acts like dictatorship, then sanctions will follow.
The above is just an explanatory for those asking what Obama can do and those appaled by acts bordering on our sovereignty.
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My own take is, US will ignore this petition, of course they will acknowledge it but file it under issues of non serious matter. If Buhari was to begin to kill citizens indiscriminately or gag the press, then those are serious matters.

Under Abacha we were treated as a pariah nation. None of us wants to go back to those dark days.
You cannot travel for studies, visa become difficult. Trade is restricted, foreign training is cancelled and foreign partners that do critical works like power, health and others are not allowed into the country.
I'm confident we won't get there. President Buhari has increasingly made statements that he will respect the powers of our Constitution.
It's his acoltyes I fear more, who want him to abuse court proceedings or take us into dictatorship just to solve corruption.
Corruption is not solved by dictatorship. If it were, Russia won't be among the most corrupt nation in the world today.

Juxtified:
Obama? Has he now become the President of the International Court of Justice, or has America become our new colonial masters?
The petition is as misdirected & attention-seeking as it is frivolous. For example, what is derogatorary about the name 'Biafra', a name even the bearers prefer to be called?

Anytime I need a good laugh I just read stuffs relating to Biafra.

*Reporting Buhari to Obama. Wtf!

Rotflmao.

Juxtified:
Obama? Has he now become the President of the International Court of Justice, or has America become our new colonial masters?
The petition is as misdirected & attention-seeking as it is frivolous. For example, what is derogatorary about the name 'Biafra', a name even the bearers prefer to be called?

Ignorance!, Yes America is still your colonial master the reason you duara president will always go and beg for help. He even thanked them for helping him win election. I dont know how Biafra come into this, but i think its done out of stewpidity

Very amusing, when you consider the fact that Guantanamo is just a few miles from mainland US

Taking coal to Newcastle..... if you ask me

By the time this country begins to chop sanctions like Groundnut, i imagine what the zombie worshipers will be saying!





Meanwhile Buhari is a drunken tyrant. He dosnt obey the laws, just like in Animal Kingdom.

Please kindly forward another copy to Putin..lol

In the words of Funke Akindele:
I have paid my tax have you paid yours

Through the petition, Ajie made what she described as a clarion call on President Obama and other concerned stakeholders to “respectfully call President Buhari to order, prohibit violence from politics and rights advocacy campaigns, ask President Buhari to respect court orders or resign, support Nigeria and Nigerians to achieve true federalism or support the path to a confederation of independent states in Nigeria.”

Let's say NO to dictatorship/tyranny.

All in all rule of law mush prevail
Court order must be respected because is the
Last hope of a common Man

GreatSE:


Ignorance!, Yes America is still your colonial master the reason you duara president will always go and beg for help. He even thanked them for helping him win election. I dont know how Biafra come into this, but i think its done out of stewpidity

yeah, we may run to them for help, but that doesn't remove the autonomy of Nigeria to the extent of petitioning one national president to another

Haba you guys want the dull one to go lock himself in some closet?

omenka:
Anytime I need a good laugh I just read stuffs relating to Biafra.

*Reporting Buhari to Obama. Wtf!

Rotflmao.

Hope you will laugh loud when Nigeria is sanctioned!
Gaddafi and Assad comes to mind.

GreatSE:


Ignorance!, Yes America is still your colonial master the reason you duara president will always go and beg for help. He even thanked them for helping him win election. I dont know how Biafra come into this, but i think its done out of stewpidity

america never colonised nigeria, england did, so the word "still" doesn't apply

Mack3N:

Hope you will laugh loud when Nigeria is sanctioned!
Gaddafi and Assad comes to mind.

so in you opinion, america loves libya and syria? pls dont wish nigeria what libya and syrians are going thru, meanwhile, people in detention are not there without offence, rule of law without human face and justice to majority is an absurdity

Remii:
so in you opinion, america loves libya and syria? pls dont wish nigeria what libya and syrians are going thru, meanwhile, people in detention are not there without offence, rule of law without human face and justice to majority is an absurdity

International influence and power is the cause of syria's problem now,U.S is sponsoring "moderate Syrian rebels" to fight Isis because it does not believe in the Assad-led govt....

Google a list of countries suffering diplomatic sanctions and see where their economy is..
Only an arms embargo sanction against Nigeria will see it loose it's fight against terrorism.

Bubu don enter the ram

Cd

e no go pass Kanu matter... IPOB sef wan show say dem get connectn

issokay we're watching

btw I hope they asked Obama what d punishment for 'Treasonable felony' is in America

Shey na like this we go dey dey

Nigeria a country with many troubles

Present counter petition to Buhari to deal with Obama and let's see how it goes.

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Happy Ignorance day to ms Carol Ajie