ADO EKITI/Nigeria: The recent executive order signed by President Muhammadu Buhari had been called an executive rascality, as the president has no such power to take citizens properties without due process.
Reacting to the Executive Order No. 6, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, speaking to journalists over the weekend, in Ado Ekiti during Ekiti State Gubernatorial Election, said the president aired in the signing, as this can only be done in a situation of chaos and war, which is not the case with this order.
“Executive Orders are duly made during the state of chaos, inter country war, or could be for internal crises, without consulting the National Assembly, because of the processes of law making, which follows different stages of readings.”
Chief Onuesoke pointed out that because of such urgent and security situation, the president is allowed to proclaim an executive order, but not an order against personal property of Nigerians, while there are institutions established to investigate such wealth and properties.
“The President has power to issue a presidential order, not an order against peoples property, when there are the law courts, the constitution is there to take care of illegal gotten wealth, and agencies and institutions that handles such”.
“The president has no right to sign an executive order to freeze peoples account, it’s an aberration, internationally, nationally, constitutionally, and it’s against the charter of the United Nation on human rights.”
The PDP chieftain called on Nigerians to resist the order, as it’s against their right to acquire properties, as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution.
Meanwhile, the social crusader has described the just concluded election in Ekiti state as a far cry from what Nigerians expected from the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, and the Federal Government, as the state was locked up and invaded with federal might to intimidate the opposition and the people of the state.
He condemned the use of federal might by the All Progressive Congress, APC, federal government to win election by all means, using state apparatus, causing fear and intimidation in the minds of the people of Ekiti. He stressed that the election was won by the APC candidate not by the vote of the people, but by the assistant of the election umpire.
