The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to frighten the judiciary arm of government.
Secondus in a statement issued by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi on Thursday admonished President Muhammadu Bubari to look inwards at his executive and stop the alleged hostility and ill-treatmentt of the nation’s Judiciary.
Speaking against the backdrop of President Buhari’s statement on the former Chief Justice of the Federation CJN, Walter Nkanu Onnoghen on Tuesday while hosting some Yoruba leaders at the Aso Villa, Secondus claimed the statement was “strategically designed to cow them into submission to his undemocratic desires”.
Continuing, the statement read “We all know it as a fact that the motive of the President in his countless berating of the Judiciary at the slightest moment is deliberately designed to frighten them, take away their confidence and force them to submit to his wishes by intimidation”.
“Prince Secondus described as preposterous and highly unacceptable the continuous ridiculing of the highly revered arm of government just because they did not dance to your selfish tune at some point”.
“He then urged all lovers of democracy in the country to rise up in defence of this critical arm of government which gets bashing from an executive arm that seeks absolute power from the back door”.
“The PDP boss notes that the double standards apparent in the administration of President Buhari comes glaringly when he ceaselessly berates the Judiciary and turns blind eye to the monumental corruption going on in the executive arm”.
He finally charged members of the Judiciary never to abdicate their responsibilities in the sustenance of democracy and refuse to be intimidated, but to insist on delivering justice in the land knowing that it is the only route to growth and development.