Nigeria’s democracy sliding into dictatorship -PDP Reps

Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives, has passed a verdict that Nigeria’s democracy is drifting towards dictatorship under President Muhammdau Buhari, with the planned illegal reconvening of the senate.
“It has come to our attention that there is an impending plot by a small group of senators aided by security agencies to again invade the senate chamber with a view to illegally reconvening the senate plenary.
Ostensibly, there purpose is to address what they term as urgent national issues.
However, it is clear that their real purpose is an attempt to unlawfully oust the leadership of the senate and effect a change of the Senate President and the Deputy Senate President”, the Caucus stated in a statement made available to journalists yesterday.
The PDP Caucus in its statement stated further that: “This trend of events must be strenuously resisted by all true democrats and well meaning Nigerians.
We have over time witnessed a descent of our country’s once stable democracy, slide into an abyss of illiberal dictatorship.
A government that has shown disdain for the rule of law, and complete disregard for the principles of separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“As elected representatives who have sworn to uphold the law and protect our democratic existence, we unreservedly condemn this onslaught on our democratic ideals in general and the parliament in particular.
“The procedure for reconvening the National Assembly is unambiguously stated in the Rules of both Houses of the National Assembly.
These Rules draw their constitutionality from section 60 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”, adding that if the National Assembly stands adjourned to a fixed date, it may only be reconvened at an earlier or later date, when the leaders of the political parties in the National Assembly make a written representation to the presiding officers to that effect, after which the presiding officer “may give notice to members of a date that the National Assembly is to reconvene”.
“We have closely watched events around the National Assembly, especially the ruthless attempts to emasculate the opposition and unseat the Senate leadership by all means possible.
We have also followed the ongoing investigation by the EFCC of the allegations leveled on the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
Despite our doubts, we have maintained our calm, hoping that the law would take its natural cause to vindicate the innocent”, it said.