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The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of governance as that of a civilian dictator.
The accusation was made in a statement by the Chairman of the Imo State Chapter of the NBA, Lawrence Nwakaeti during an assessment of the two years of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) led federal government.
He insisted that the past two years was characterized with impunity and abuse of rule of law.
The statement partly reads “As far as any true Democrat who understands the norms of democracy is concerned, the two years administration of the APC has set us back by decades.
“Some of us were expecting an improvement on the gains recorded so far before the coming into office by the ruling party. What we have mainly seen which we erroneously describe as democracy is a civilian dictatorship as aptly coined by one northern Elder statesman.
“May I take us to recent happenings in the polity where the rule of law and all known tenets of constitutional democracy have been abused with impunity. Namely, the desecration of the judiciary as an institution by the executive, disobedience to court orders, clamp down on non-violent protesters, treating the issue of the president’s ill health with secrecy, media trial of suspected persons, incessant clamp down of persons with opposing views without trial and if there is an order of court for the release, refusal to obey the said order”.