Buhari vs Atiku: PDP warns Buratai, says president lacks power to deploy soldiers on Saturday

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday cautioned the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to refrain from acts that will suggest that the military has become an arm of a political party.

PDP said Gen. Buratai’s allusion to its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as well as his threats to officers to execute the unlawful order by President Muhammadu Buhari is an “aberration of our laws and a recipe for crisis.”

In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Oligbondiyan, PDP said Abubakar spoke on the side of the law and
wishes of Nigerians and cannot be intimidated by anybody no matter how highly placed.

The statement read: “Gen. Buratai is counseled to note that the loyalty of the military is to the state and that the President lacks the powers, under our laws, to deploy soldiers for the conduct of elections.

“Our party urges Gen Buratai to concentrate on his very demanding assignment of protecting the territorial integrity of our nation and ending insurgency rather than dabbling into partisan politics at the risk of our national cohesion.

“It is imperative to state that by trying to drag the military to participate in the February 23 Presidential elections, President Buhari plots to suspend our constitution, assume the position of an emperor, trigger unrest, subvert our electoral process and derail our democracy.

“We direct President Buhari to the judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos on March 23, 2015, wherein the court, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba, directly outlawed the deployment of troops in the conduct of elections in our country.

“President Buhari should also avail himself of the subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal, which on February 15, 2015, held that the President has no powers to deploy soldiers in the conduct of elections.”

PDP also counseled President Buhari and Gen. Buratai to “end their rationalizing of military option, as the courts have summarily dismissed their arguments that soldiers are needed to guarantee peaceful elections.

“It may interest President Buhari to know that the judgment was sequel to a suit filed by the APC Leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, seeking a declaration that deployment of soldiers during
elections is illegal and unconstitutional.”

“In case, President Buhari is not aware, as usual, the court directly held that “the Armed Forces have no role in elections” and if soldiers must vote, they must do so in their barracks.,” the statement said.

Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/buhari-vs-atiku-pdp-warns-buratai-says.html

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