The Personal Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari would respect the law of the separation of powers and won’t act like his predecessors did when faced with similar crisis.
Onochie said this in a statement on her Facebook page. She urged Nigerians to ‘descend’ on the National Assembly members instead of expecting President Buhari to do so.
In her words: “I understand when well-meaning Nigerians call on President Buhari to ‘descend’ on the National Assembly, the Senate in particular. After all, that’s what Presidents Jonathan and Obasanjo did.
“With all due respect, it would appear, and was very clear, even to the blind that what Nigeria had under President Obasanjo was democracy tinged with autocratic tendencies.
“President Buhari is a man of honour. He has vowed to give Nigerians a democratic leadership and he will not be pressured into breaking that vow.”
“This idea of wanting our President to break constitutional provisions that recognise separation of powers is nothing but a total cop out on the side of Nigerians. We must have democracy in a democratic setting.
“Nigerians did it in January of 2012. That was when we recovered the executive arm of our government. The elections of 2015 merely confirmed that Nigerians actually recovered their government.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that President Buhari on Wednesday, set up a committee to resolve the perennial rift between the executive and the legislature.
Buhari named his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as the chair of the committee.