Anthony Ojukwu, the NHRC Executive Secretary, made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, Borno State on Saturday
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The party said the discovery has “not only exposed the shameless hypocrisy of the Buhari Presidency, but also stripped it of all integrity and brought its deceptive saintly posturing to a disgraceful end”
Chief Precious Elekima, Protem National Chairman, New African Democratic Congress, has described sack of Director-General of Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, as “a hasty decision’’.
The allegation was contained in a statement signed by the media aides of Saraki and Ekweremadu, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu
In an article by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the Political Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari in the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Presidency insinuated and said Saraki had been working with the likes of retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Daura was sacked on Tuesday for the invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the DSS
The report, dated August 8, recommended the questioning of operatives of the DSS that took part in the invasion and the search of their houses
Idris said this in his preliminary report to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on the invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the DSS, acting under instructions from Daura
The acting Director-General of the Department of State Services, Matthew Seiyefa, said the service was reviewing all cases of alleged unlawful detentions and human rights abuses by the service.
Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday arrived the ancient town of Daura in Katsina state for the All Progressives Congress grand rally for Saturday’s Katsina North Senatorial District bye-election.
Several members of the House of Representatives and senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were at the news conference
Saraki had at a World Press Conference on Wednesday said this in reaction to the blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services
The President General of the Ohanaeze, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was right in describing the act as a breach of national security, but said all the characters who participated in the act either directly or indirectly should face the law to act as a deterrent to overzealous security operatives
The National Secretary of NUJ, Shuaibu Leman, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, described the action as “primitive, reckless and a clear sabotage of the nation’s democratic process”.
Kola Ajayi, IPAC Chairman in Lagos, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, refuted the reports when he fielded questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council which was presided over by acting President, Osinbajo, at Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The chapter, in a statement by its spokesman, Jacob Ogunseye, on Wednesday in Abuja, said that Osinbajo’s decision to remove Daura was a right step aimed at strengthening the nation’s democratic tenets.
Saraki made the demand during a World Press Conference he addressed in the foyer of the National Assembly on Wednesday.
The World Press Conference is coming on the heels of the invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services on Tuesday.
Idris, who was summoned alongside Daura by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, before the sack of the DSS boss, said the police had nothing to do with the blockade despite the arrival of a fully loaded police van while the action was on