The Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party says national security and national interest must always be part of rule of law for Nigeria’s democracy to be meaningful.
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It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the ongoing Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule of law, has not yet generated any coherent response from either the Bar or the Bench.
Frontline Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), and the Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, have faulted the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that his All Progressives Congress-led government “will not sacrifice national security for the rule of law.”
The Peoples Democratic Party has told President Muhammadu Buhari that his statement claiming that the rule of law will become secondary to his whims and self-determined “national interest” is strange to Nigeria’s laws and completely unacceptable.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Saturday said he is not losing sleep over threat to impeach him.
Banire, in a statement he personally signed on Monday, also encouraged the party to pursue the path of the Rule of Law.
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, read the resolution from the session, which lasted over three hours, and declared that the lawmakers would not hesitate to move against the president if he failed to comply.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, noted this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, to mark the 2018 World Press Freedom Day with the theme; “Keeping Power In Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law”.
He stated that a situation where people frown at the actions of the legislature taken in the course of carrying out its constitutional duties negates the Principle of Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law.
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