Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to respect the principles of separation of powers by allowing the judiciary to carry out its jobs in proper prosecution of people accused of corruption.
The governor asked the president to stop making the judiciary looks as the stumbling block in his anti-graft fight.
Fayose gave this advice in a statement release on Monday, February 1, by his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, urging the president to tell Nigerians the truth on the war against Boko Haram, Vanguard reports.
He said: “They keep telling us that they have defeated Boko Haram technically while Nigerians are still being killed daily by Boko Haram, with over 100 people killed in Dalori, less than 12km to Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
“Isn’t it now necessary for the President to fulfill his promise of leading from the front and getting his Information Minister, Lai Mohammed to go and hold a press briefing in Sambisa forest unguarded by military men so as to show to Nigerians that indeed, they have defeated Boko Haram technically?”
The governor said that Buhari should have simply tell Nigerians that he hated the Nigerian Judiciary because he lost his petitions that he filed against his electoral defeats in 2003, 2007 and 2011 , instead of hiding under the fight against corruption to ventilate his anger.
The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, saying that “in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.”
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