Buhari's Men Are Behaving As If Nigeria Is A Banana Republic - Fayose

Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has called on Nigerians to stand up against the rascality of Presidency officials, who he said were bent on destroying “our hard-earned democracy and emasculating the National Assembly.”
“The major difference between democracy and dictatorship is the presence of the Legislature in democracy and its absence in a dictatorship”, he said, adding that efforts by this administration “to hand-cuff the National Assembly must be correctly interpreted as a scantily-concealed plot to foist full-blown dictatorship on Nigerians. This we must resist vigorously.
“In doing so, we shall be defending our democracy and we shall also be defending ourselves and generations of Nigerians yet unborn. This democracy cost us a lot in blood and sweat. The labour and sacrifice of the heroes and heroines of our democracy must not be allowed to go in vain”, he said.
In a statement released in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said it was a shame for the Constitution of the country was trampled by Federal appointees and the Presidency keeps silent.
“It confirms that the Presidency is the one behind it. In the uniform saga involving the Comptroller-General of Customs, it is safe to say that the Presidency is in support of Hammed Ali against the National Assembly.
“It is scary that a whole Senate of the Federal Republic has to bow to an appointee who had needed the same Senate to confirm his appointment. In a democracy which thrives on separation of powers, this is tantamount to an invasion of the hallowed chambers of the Legislature, in the same manner that we recently witnessed against the Judiciary.
“When the Presidency accepts and defends the arrogance of one man against the time-tested and practice-honoured intricate system of governance, then, the system as a whole has collapsed. It is even more dangerous that the courts have been dragged into this obvious plot to destroy the Legislature just as we recently witnessed a similar plot against the Judiciary itself!