Did we just read that president Muhammadu Buhari told lawyers
that if you put national security side by side with the rule of law, that
national security comes first?
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| *Buhari |
This is
an unmitigated assault on constitutional democracy which must not be allowed to
be swept under the carpets because it is manifestly erroneous and obscenely
illegal. His resort to holding on to a so called supreme court’s decision which
he refused to disclose the particulars makes the entire claims puerile,
spurious, unbelievably shallow and therefore a nullity to the extent of its
inconsistency. Shamefully, the lawyers sat down as the head of the executive
arm of government embarked on this one man show of intellectual shame. The
President has wounded the truth and must be corrected with all the speed that
can be mustered. We will first determine the essence of constitutionalism which
is the be all and end all of the form of government in practice in Nigeria
